Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may liquidate accounts receivable from individual clients or payees of clients from institution for mental disease funds appropriated by the Legislature, when they have been determined by the department to be uncollectible, including accounts receivable in existence prior to the effective date of this section. Liquidation shall occur no sooner than 12 months after the original date of the accounts receivable debt.
Ca. Welf. and Inst. Code § 5903.5