“Public social services” means those activities and functions of state and local government administered or supervised by the department or the State Department of Health Services and involved in providing aid or services or both, including health care services and medical assistance, to those people of the state who, because of their economic circumstances or social condition, are in need thereof and may benefit thereby.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 10051
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Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 57 Cal. App. 4th 784 - Campos v. Anderson (1997)
Most recently applied in Marquez v. State Department of Health Care Services (September 2015)
Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.