Section 8402.

The State Department of Education shall provide an independent appeal procedure to each contracting agency providing child care and development services pursuant to Section 8262. Prior to filing an appeal petition, the contracting agency shall have submitted all previously required standard monthly or quarterly reporting forms to the State Department of Education. The appeal procedure shall be conducted by the Office of Administrative Hearings and shall be provided upon petition of the contracting agency in any of the following circumstances:

(a) Termination or suspension of a contracting agency's contract.

(b) Denial of more than 4 percent or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is less, of a local contracting agency's contracted payment for services schedule.

(c) Demand for remittance of an overpayment of more than 4 percent or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is less, of a local contracting agency's annual contract.

(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 687, Sec. 1.)