Every applicant for insurance shall be afforded an opportunity for a fair hearing before the committee upon 10 days’ written notice to the applicant. If the department, after affording reasonable opportunity for development and presentation of the application and after receiving the advice of the committee, finds that an application complies with the requirements of this article and of Section 129020 and is otherwise in conformity with the state plan, it may approve the application for insurance. The department shall consider and approve applications in the order of relative need set forth in the state plan in accordance with Section 129020. Judicial review of a final decision made under this section may be had by filing a petition for writ of mandate. Any petition shall be filed within 30 days after the date of the final decision of the department.

(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, Sec. 246. (AB 133) Effective July 27, 2021.)