California Health and Safety Code 38000 – The Legislature states its intent with respect to direct service …
The Legislature states its intent with respect to direct service contracts of the departments within the Health and Welfare Agency as follows:
(a) Contract approval process should take no longer than 30 days from the time the administrative agency generating the contract has approved its provisions.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 38000
- Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(b) Payment for services rendered shall take no longer than 30 days after an invoice has been approved by the responsible department.
(c) If contract approval or payment or both are delayed, the state shall notify community based agencies within 15 days with instructions to either defer or interrupt services to be contracted. If the state requests an agency to continue providing services, conditions shall be mutually agreed upon in advance for amortization of particular additional costs to the agency involved.
(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 990.)