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2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4131.

4131. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Sections 4126 and 4127 shall apply (1) to all money and other personal property delivered to the State Treasurer or State Controller prior to the effective date of said sections, which would have been subject to the provisions thereof if they had been in effect on the date of such delivery; and (2) to all money and other personal property delivered to the State Treasurer or State Controller prior to the effective date of the 1961 amendments to said sections, as said provisions would have applied on the date of such delivery if, on said date of delivery, the provisions of Chapter 1809, Statutes of 1959, had not been in effect.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1667.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4132.

4132. (a) It is hereby declared that the provisions of this code reflect the concern of the Legislature that persons with mental health disorders are to be regarded as patients to be provided care and treatment and not as inmates of institutions for the purposes of secluding them from the rest of the public.
(b) Whenever any provision of this code heretofore or hereafter enacted uses the term “inmate,” it shall be construed to mean “patient.”
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 69. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4133.

4133. All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of State Hospitals shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients at the state hospitals, except that all admissions to those facilities shall be subject to the approval of the chief officer thereof. Charges for services rendered to patients at those facilities shall be determined pursuant to Section 4025. The liability for the charges shall be governed by the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 7275) of Chapter 2 of Division 7, except at the hospitals maintained by the State Department of Developmental Services the liability shall be governed by the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 6715) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 6 and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 7.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 99. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4134.

4134. The state mental hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing with Section 111950) of Chapter 4 of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.
The state mental hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals shall also comply with the California Retail Food Code (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 113700) of Part 7 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code).
Sanitation, health and hygiene standards that have been adopted by a city, county, or city and county that are more strict than those of the California Retail Food Code or the California Food Sanitation Act shall not be applicable to state mental hospitals that are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 100. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4135.

4135. Any person committed to the State Department of State Hospitals as a mentally abnormal sex offender shall remain a patient committed to the department for the period specified in the court order of commitment or until discharged by the medical director of the state hospital in which the person is a patient, whichever occurs first. The medical director may grant the patient a leave of absence upon the terms and conditions as the medical director deems proper. The petition for commitment of a person as a mentally abnormal sex offender, the reports, the court orders, and other court documents filed in the court in connection therewith shall not be open to inspection by any other than the parties to the proceeding, the attorneys for the party or parties, and the State Department of State Hospitals, except upon the written authority of a judge of the superior court of the county in which the proceedings were had.
Records of the supervision, care, and treatment given to each person committed to the State Department of State Hospitals as a mentally abnormal sex offender shall not be open to the inspection of any person not in the employ of the department or of the state hospital, except that a judge of the superior court may by order permit examination of those records.
The charges for the care and treatment rendered to persons committed as mentally abnormal sex offenders shall be in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 7275) of Chapter 3 of Division 7.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 101. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4136.

4136. (a) Each patient in a state hospital who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30 days shall be paid an amount of aid for his or her personal and incidental needs that, when added to his or her income, equals twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per month. If a patient elects to do so, a patient may save all or any portion of his or her monthly amount of aid provided for personal and incidental needs for expenditure in subsequent months.
(b) Each indigent patient in a state hospital shall be allotted sufficient materials for one letter each week, including postage in an amount not to exceed the cost of one stamp for first-class mail for a one-ounce letter, at no cost to the patient.
(c) Each newly admitted patient, for the first 30 days after his or her initial admission, shall be allotted sufficient materials for two letters each week, including postage for first-class mail for up to two one-ounce letters per week. The hospital administrator shall ensure that additional writing materials and postage are available for purchase by patients at the store or canteen on hospital grounds.
(d) For purposes of this section, “indigent patient” means a patient whose income is no more than twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per month.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 70. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4137.

4137. Whenever a patient dies in a state mental hospital and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the hands of another person other than by accident, the State Department of State Hospitals shall determine upon review of the coroner’s investigation if the death resulted from the negligence, recklessness, or intentional act of a state employee. If it is determined that the death directly resulted from the negligence, recklessness, or intentional act of a state employee, the department shall immediately notify the State Personnel Board and any appropriate licensing agency and shall terminate the employment of the employee as provided by law. In addition, if the state employee is a licensed mental health professional, the appropriate licensing board shall inquire into the circumstances of the death, examine the findings of the coroner’s investigation, and make a determination of whether the mental health professional should have his or her license revoked or suspended or be subject to other disciplinary action. “Licensed mental health professional,” as used in this section, means a person licensed by any board, bureau, department, or agency pursuant to a state law and employed in a state mental hospital.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 102. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4138.

4138. (a) Upon receiving a request from the director of a state hospital listed in Section 4100, the Director of State Hospitals may prohibit the possession or use of tobacco products on the grounds of the requesting facility. The Director of State Hospitals shall provide an implementation plan that shall include a phase-in period for any of the state hospitals listed in Section 4100 that prohibits the possession or use of tobacco products by patients or any other persons on hospital grounds, except on the premises of residential staff housing where patients are not present.
(b) This prohibition shall include an exemption for departmentally approved religious ceremonies.
(c) As part of the implementation plan, the department shall provide any requesting patient with a smoking cessation plan that may include, at minimum, an individual medical treatment plan, counseling, prescription drugs, or nicotine replacement, as determined to be medically necessary and appropriate.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict the outside activity time currently available to hospital patients.
(e) If an implementation plan is adopted pursuant to subdivision (a), the store or canteen at any facility subject to the prohibition shall not sell tobacco products.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 103. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4139.

4139. (a) Except as otherwise authorized by law, or when authorized by the director of the state hospital, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to a patient in a state hospital listed in Section 4100 any item listed in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, that has been prohibited for possession by a patient either by statute or by regulation is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each item.
(1) A cellular telephone or other wireless communication device, or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity card (SIM card) or memory storage device.
(2) Tobacco products, if the state hospital has a ban on tobacco products.
(3) Money, in excess of the limitations and restrictions adopted by the state hospital.
(b) If a person visiting a patient in a state hospital listed in Section 4100, upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector, is found to be in possession of an item prohibited for patient possession pursuant to subdivision (a), the item shall be subject to confiscation but shall be returned on the same day the person visits the patient, unless the item is held as evidence in a case where the person is cited for a violation of subdivision (a). If, upon investigation, it is determined that no prosecution will take place, the item shall be returned to the owner at the owner’s expense. Notice of this provision shall be posted in all areas where visitors are searched prior to visitation with a patient and outside the facility in a location easily visible to visitors so that they can leave prohibited items in their cars before entering the visitor area.
(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 201, Sec. 1. (SB 796) Effective January 1, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4141.

4141. (a) (1) Each state hospital shall update its injury and illness prevention plan at least once a year to include necessary safeguards to prevent workplace safety hazards in connection with workplace violence associated with patient assaults on employees.
(2) Updated injury and illness prevention plans shall address, but shall not be limited to, all of the following:
(A) Control of physical access throughout the hospital and grounds.
(B) Alarm systems.
(C) Presence of security personnel.
(D) Training.
(E) Buddy systems.
(F) Communication.
(G) Emergency responses.
(3) (A) The department shall submit the updated injury and illness prevention plans to the Legislature every two years.
(B) (i) The requirement for submitting the updated injury and illness prevention plans imposed pursuant to subparagraph (A) is inoperative four years after the date the first report is due, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(ii) Updated injury and illness prevention plans submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(b) Each state hospital shall establish an injury and illness prevention committee comprised of hospital management and employees designated by the hospital’s director in consultation with the employee bargaining units. The committee shall be responsible for providing recommendations to the hospital director for updates to the injury and illness prevention plan. The committee shall meet at least four times per year.
(c) Each state hospital shall develop an incident reporting procedure that can be used, at a minimum, to develop reports of patient assaults on employees and assist the hospital in identifying risks of patient assaults on employees. Data obtained from the incident reporting procedures shall be accessible to staff. The incident reporting procedure shall be designed to provide hospital management with immediate notification of reported incidents. The hospital shall provide for timely and efficient responses and investigations to incident reports made under the incident reporting procedure. Incident reports shall also be forwarded to the injury and illness prevention committee established pursuant to subdivision (b).
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 76, Sec. 203. (AB 383) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4142.

4142. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, whenever a patient is committed to the State Department of State Hospitals, a director of a state hospital or a clinician, as defined in subdivision (f), shall obtain the state summary criminal history information for the patient. The information shall be used to assess the violence risk of a patient, to assess the appropriate placement of a patient, to treat a patient, to prepare periodic reports as required by statute, or to determine the patient’s progress or fitness for release. The state summary criminal history information shall be placed in the patient’s confidential file for the duration of his or her commitment.
(b) The information may be obtained through use of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS). Law enforcement personnel shall cooperate with requests for state summary criminal history information authorized pursuant to this section and shall provide the information to the requesting entity in a timely manner.
(c) A law enforcement officer or person authorized by this section to receive the information who obtains the information in the record and knowingly provides the information to a person not authorized by law to receive the information is guilty of a misdemeanor as specified in Section 11142 of the Penal Code.
(d) Information obtained pursuant to this section shall not be used for any purposes other than those described in subdivision (a).
(e) For purposes of this section, the State Department of State Hospitals law enforcement personnel, pursuant to Section 830.38 of the Penal Code, may act as the law enforcement personnel described in subdivision (b).
(f) For purposes of this section, “clinician” means a state licensed mental health professional working within the State Department of State Hospitals who has received, and is current in, CLETS training that is appropriate for a person who has ongoing access to information from the CLETS and is not a CLETS operator, following the policies on training, compliance, and inspection required by the Department of Justice.
(g) State summary criminal history information secured pursuant to this section shall remain confidential and access shall be limited to the director of the state hospital and the clinician. Within 30 days of discharge from the state hospital, the state summary criminal history information shall be removed from the patient’s file and destroyed.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 572. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4143.

4143. (a) Commencing July 1, 2015, and subject to available funding, the State Department of State Hospitals may establish and maintain pilot enhanced treatment programs (ETPs), as defined in Section 1265.9 of the Health and Safety Code, and evaluate the effectiveness of intensive, evidence-based clinical therapy and treatment of patients described in Section 4144.
(b) At least 60 days prior to activating an ETP, the State Department of State Hospitals shall submit written draft policies and procedures that will guide the operation of the ETP, including, but not limited to, admittance criteria, staffing levels, services to be provided to patients, a transition planning process, and training requirements, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature and to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 26, Sec. 48. (SB 85) Effective June 24, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government › Section 4145.

4145. (a) The State Department of State Hospitals shall monitor the pilot enhanced treatment programs (ETP), evaluate outcomes, and report on its findings and recommendations. This report shall be provided to the fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature annually, beginning on January 10 of the first year after which the first ETP is opened and services have commenced, and shall be in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. The evaluation shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Comparative summary information regarding the characteristics of the patients served.
(2) Compliance with staffing requirements.
(3) Staff classification to patient ratio.
(4) Average monthly occupancy.
(5) Average length of stay.
(6) The number of residents whose length of stay exceeds 90 days.
(7) The number of patients with multiple stays.
(8) The number of patients whose discharge was delayed due to lack of available beds in a standard treatment environment.
(9) Restraint and seclusion use, including the number of incidents and duration, consistent with paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 1180.2 of the Health and Safety Code.
(10) Serious injuries to staff and residents.
(11) Serious injuries to staff and residents related to the use of seclusion and restraints as defined under Section 1180 of the Health and Safety Code.
(12) Staff turnover.
(13) The number of patients’ rights complaints, including the subject of the complaint and its resolution.
(14) Type and number of training provided for ETP staff.
(15) Staffing levels for ETPs.
(b) The State Department of State Hospitals’ reporting requirements under Section 4023 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, shall apply to the ETPs.
(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 718, Sec. 6. (AB 1340) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2 - Boards of Trustees and Other Advisory Boards › Section 4200.

4200. (a) Each state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals shall have a hospital advisory board of eight members appointed by the Governor from a list of nominations submitted to him or her by the boards of supervisors of counties within each hospital’s designated service area. If a state hospital provides services for both persons with mental health disorders and persons with developmental disabilities, there shall be a separate advisory board for the program provided to persons with mental health disorders and a separate board for the program provided to persons with developmental disabilities. To the extent feasible, an advisory board serving a hospital for persons with mental health disorders shall consist of one member who has been a patient in a state hospital and two members shall be the parents, spouse, siblings, or adult children of persons who are or have been patients in a state hospital, three representatives of different professional disciplines selected from primary user counties for patients under Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5, and two representatives of the general public who have demonstrated an interest in services to people with mental health disorders.
(b) Of the members first appointed after the operative date of the amendments made to this section during the 1975–76 legislative session, one shall be appointed for a term of two years, and one for three years. Thereafter, each appointment shall be for the term of three years, except that an appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term only. No person shall be appointed to serve more than a maximum of two terms as a member of the board.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this section, members serving on the hospital advisory board on the operative date of the amendments made to this section during the 1987–88 legislative session, may continue to serve on the board until the expiration of their term. The Legislature intends that changes in the composition of the board required by these amendments apply to future vacancies on the board.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 71. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2 - Boards of Trustees and Other Advisory Boards › Section 4201.

4201. No person shall be eligible for appointment to a hospital advisory board if he is a Member of the Legislature or an elective state officer, and if he becomes such after his appointment his office shall be vacated and a new appointment made. If any appointee fails to attend three consecutive regular meetings of the board, unless he is ill or absent from the state, his office becomes vacant, and the board, by resolution, shall so declare, and shall forthwith transmit a certified copy of such resolution to the Governor.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 459.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2 - Boards of Trustees and Other Advisory Boards › Section 4202.

4202. The advisory boards of the several state hospitals are advisory to the State Department of State Hospitals and the Legislature with power of visitation and advice with respect to the conduct of the hospitals and coordination with community mental health programs. The members of the boards shall serve without compensation other than necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty. They shall organize and elect a chairman. They shall meet at least once every three months and at such other times as they are called by the chairman, by the medical director, by the head of the department or a majority of the board. No expenses shall be allowed except in connection with meetings so held.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 105. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2 - Boards of Trustees and Other Advisory Boards › Section 4202.5.

4202.5. (a) The chairman of a hospital advisory board advising a hospital for persons with mental health disorders shall meet annually with the hospital director, the community mental health directors, and the chairmen of the mental health advisory boards representing counties within the hospital’s designated service area.
(b) The chairmen shall be allowed necessary expenses incurred in attending these meetings.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department assist the development of annual regional meetings required by this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 72. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2 - Boards of Trustees and Other Advisory Boards › Section 4203.

4203. The Atascadero State Hospital shall have an advisory board of seven persons appointed by the Governor, each of whom holds office for the term of three years. To the extent feasible the composition of board membership shall consist of two persons, who at the time of their appointment are relatives of the patient population, three representatives of professional disciplines serving the patient population, and two representatives of the general public. The board shall advise and consult with the department with respect to the conduct of the hospital. The members of the board shall serve without compensation other than necessary expenses incurred in attendance at meetings.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1057.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4240.

4240. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The symptoms and behaviors of persons with serious mental health disorders may cause severe disruption of normal family relationships.
(b) Families are often the principal caregivers, housing providers, and case managers for family members with serious mental health disorders.
(c) Families of persons with serious mental health disorders more often than not have little or no legal authority over their adult family members with mental health disorders who are sometimes difficult to manage. Consequently, they need advice, skills, emotional support, and guidance to cope with the stressful burden of caregiving in order to be effective and helpful.
(d) Involved families are of inestimable value to the publicly funded and professionally operated state and county mental health system and programs emphasizing self-help can be the best way to assist families in maintaining the cohesion of family life while caring for and assisting a family member with a mental health disorder.
(e) Since the state’s mental health resources are limited and are increasingly being directed on a priority basis toward provision of services to persons with serious mental health disorders, informed and active families helping one another can effectively extend and amplify the value of state mental health dollars.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 73. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4241.

4241. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, by this chapter, to support an organized program of self-help in which families exchange information, advice, and emotional support to enable them to maintain and strengthen family life and secure or provide more effective treatment, care, and rehabilitation for family members with mental health disorders.
(b) It is further the intent of the Legislature to utilize an existing organized statewide network of families, who have family members with mental health disorders, as a means of delivering the services designated in this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 74. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4242.

4242. As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Family” means persons whose children, spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents, or grandchildren have a serious mental health disorder.
(b) “Serious mental health disorder” means a mental health disorder that is severe in degree and persistent in duration and that may cause a behavioral disorder or impair functioning so as to interfere substantially with activities of daily living. Serious mental health disorders include schizophrenia, major affective disorders, and other severely disabling mental health disorders.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 9, Sec. 20. (AB 46) Effective January 1, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4243.

4243. (a) All funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to contract with an organization to establish a statewide network of families who have family members with mental health disorders for the purpose of providing information, advice, support, and other assistance to these families.
(b) A request for proposal shall be issued seeking applicants who are capable of supplying the services specified in Section 4244. The respondent organizations shall demonstrate that they:
(1) Focus their activities exclusively on persons with serious mental health disorders.
(2) Have experience in successfully working with state agencies, including, but not limited to, the State Department of State Hospitals.
(3) Have the ability to reach and involve the target population as active members.
(4) Have proven experience providing structured self-help services that benefit the target population.
(5) Have experience holding statewide and local conferences to educate families and professionals regarding the needs of persons with mental health disorders.
(6) Have the financial and organizational structure and experience to manage the funds provided under the proposed contract.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 75. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4244.

4244. The Director of State Hospitals shall enter into a contract with the successful bidder to provide services that shall include, but not be necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(a) Production and statewide dissemination of information to families regarding methods of obtaining and evaluating services needed by family members with mental health disorders.
(b) Provision of timely advice, counseling, and other supportive services to assist families in coping with emotional stress and to enable them to care for or otherwise assist family members with mental disorders.
(c) Organizing family self-help services in local communities, accessible to families throughout the state.
(d) Conducting training programs for mental health practitioners and college and university students to inform current and future mental health professionals of the needs of families and methods of utilizing family resources to assist clients with mental health disorders.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 76. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 2.5 - Families of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders › Section 4245.

4245. Contracts entered in pursuant to this chapter shall:
(a) Have an annual contract period from July 1 through June 30 of each fiscal year unless the Director of State Hospitals or the contractor terminates the contract earlier.
(b) Require an annual report by the contractor accounting for all expenditures and program accomplishments.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 108. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4300.

4300. As used in this chapter, “officers” of a state hospital means:
(a) Medical director.
(b) Hospital administrator.
(c) Hospital director.
(d) Chief of police services at the hospital.
(e) Any other hospital employee appointed and deemed by the Director of State Hospitals to be an officer.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 39. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4301.

4301. (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of all of the following officers:
(1) A hospital administrator.
(2) A hospital director.
(3) A chief of police services.
(4) Any other hospital employee appointed and deemed by the Director of State Hospitals to be an officer.
(b) The Director of State Hospitals shall appoint a program director for each program at a state hospital.
(c) The Governor, upon the recommendation of the Director of State Hospitals, shall appoint one medical director for the department and one medical director for each state hospital. The medical director of the department shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in California and shall be responsible for standards, research, coordination, surveillance, and planning for the improvement of medical care for the department.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 40. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4302.

4302. The Director of State Hospitals shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests from the various hospitals.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 110. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4303.

4303. Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as other expenses of, the state hospitals.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 962.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4304.

4304. The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients with mental health disorders. The efforts and direction of the officers and employees of each state hospital shall be directed to this end.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 77. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4305.

4305. (a) Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director, the medical director of a state hospital shall be responsible for the planning, development, direction, management, supervision, and evaluation of medical care provided.
(b) A medical director of a state hospital shall be a physician who has passed, or shall pass, an examination for a license to practice medicine in California and shall be a qualified specialist in a branch of medicine that includes diseases affecting the brain and nervous system. The medical director of a state hospital shall be well qualified by training or experience to have proven skills in mental hospital program administration.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 41. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4306.

4306. (a) Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director, the hospital administrator shall be responsible for the planning, development, direction, management and supervision of all administrative and supportive services in the hospital facility. These services include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) All administrative functions, such as personnel, accounting, budgeting, and patients’ accounts.
(2) All life-support functions, such as food services, facility maintenance and patient supplies.
(3) All other business functions.
(b) It shall be the responsibility of the hospital administrator to provide support services, as specified in this section, within available resources, to all hospital treatment programs.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 42. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4307.

4307. The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 43. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4308.

4308. (a) If a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of State Hospitals, the Director of State Hospitals shall appoint, as provided in Section 4301, a hospital administrator, a hospital director, and program directors.
(b) A hospital administrator shall be selected based on their overall knowledge of the hospital and the operation of its administrative, business, and life-support functions and shall have had experience in this area.
(c) The hospital director shall be selected based on their overall knowledge of the hospital, its programs, and its relationship to its community, and on their demonstrated abilities to administer a large facility.
(d) The standards for the professional qualifications of a program director shall be established by the Director of State Hospitals for each patient program. The Director of State Hospitals shall not adopt regulations that prohibit a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric technician, or clinical social worker from employment in a patient program in any professional, administrative, or technical position. However, the program director of a medical-surgical unit shall be a licensed physician.
(e) If the program director is not a physician, a physician shall be available to assume responsibility for all those acts of diagnosis, treatment, or prescribing or ordering of drugs that may only be performed by a licensed physician.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 44. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4309.

4309. The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In the hospital director’s absence, one of the other hospital officers, or in the absence of the other hospital officers, a program director, or other hospital representative shall be designated to perform the hospital director’s duties and assume the hospital director’s responsibilities.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 45. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4311.

4311. (a) The chief of police services at the hospital shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and appearance before the nearest magistrate for examination, of all persons who attempt to commit or have committed a public offense thereon.
(b) The chief of police services shall be an experienced law enforcement officer who has completed the management training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, with management experience directing uniformed peace officers and investigation officers.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 424, Sec. 9. (SB 1495) Effective January 1, 2019.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4312.

4312. The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training, and for the government of the hospital buildings and grounds. Any person who knowingly or willfully violates such rules and regulations may, upon the order of either of the hospital officers, be ejected from the buildings and premises of the hospital.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 962.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4313.

4313. The chief of police services, supervising investigators, investigators, and each hospital police officer have the powers and authority conferred by law upon each respectively as set forth in subdivision (v) of Section 830.3 and Section 830.38 of the Penal Code. When and as directed by the hospital director, the chief of police services, supervising investigators, investigators, and hospital police officers shall enforce the rules and regulations of the hospital, preserve peace and order on the premises thereof, protect and preserve the property of the state, and help ensure integration of treatment, safety, and security.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 424, Sec. 10. (SB 1495) Effective January 1, 2019.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4313.5.

4313.5. (a) Designated investigators of state hospitals shall request a sexual assault forensic medical examination for any resident of a state hospital who is a victim or reasonably suspected to be a victim of sexual assault, as defined in Section 15610.63, performed at an appropriate facility off the grounds of a state hospital in accordance with Sections 13823.5 to 13823.12, inclusive, of the Penal Code, which includes, but is not limited to, the requirement that the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the city or county in which the state hospital is located be notified by the person performing the sexual assault forensic medical examination and that consent is obtained as required by subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 13823.11 of the Penal Code.
(b) The sexual assault forensic medical examination described in subdivision (a) may be performed at a state hospital by an independent sexual assault forensic examiner designated to perform examinations of victims of sexual assault in the jurisdiction of the state hospital only if it is deemed safer for the victim and the state hospital’s examination facilities are equipped with forensic examination and evidence collection capability comparable to that of the designated community examination facility, as determined by the independent sexual assault forensic examiner.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 724, Sec. 4. (SB 651) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 4 - MENTAL HEALTH › PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED › CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees › Section 4314.

4314. (a) The Director of State Hospitals may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department that is not needed for other authorized purposes, to enable the institution to establish and maintain therein a store or canteen for the sale to or for the benefit of patients of the institution of candies, sundries, and other articles. The stores shall be conducted subject to the rules and regulations of the department and the rental, utility, and service charges shall be fixed as will reimburse the institutions for the cost thereof. The stores when conducted under the direction of a hospital administrator shall be operated on a nonprofit basis but any profits derived shall be deposited in the benefit fund of each institution as set forth in Section 4125.
(b) Before any store is authorized or established, the Director of State Hospitals shall first determine that the facilities are not being furnished adequately by private enterprise in the community where it is proposed to locate the store, and may hold public hearings or cause surveys to be made, to determine the same.
(c) The Director of State Hospitals may rent space to private individuals, for the maintenance of a store or canteen at any of these institutions upon any terms and subject to any regulations that are approved by the Department of General Services, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13109 of the Government Code. The terms imposed shall provide that the rental, utility, and service charges to be paid shall be fixed so as to reimburse the institution for the cost thereof and any additional charges required to be paid shall be deposited in the benefit fund of the institution as set forth in Section 4125.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 46. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)