When must a California public entity act on a claim?

Actual legally effective claim presentation, or presentation of the amended claim

Section 912.4(a) measures the amended-claim branch from amendment presentation. Under section 915.2(a), qualifying mail is deemed presented and received at deposit, not later postal delivery.

Responsible actor. The public entity’s board acting on the presented claim. Distinguish an original claim, an amended claim and a late-claim application. Establish proper presentation, service method, any written agreement and the agency holiday rules.

1. Actual legally effective claim presentation, or presentation of the amended claim
2. Section 912.4(a) measures the amended-claim branch from amendment presentation. Under section 915.2(a), qualifying mail is deemed presented and received at deposit, not later postal delivery.
3. Resolve the required presentation method, recipient, applicable agency holidays and stated comparisons. No final date is computed.
4. Preserve the presentation record, any amendment, the board’s act and every written extension. Under section 912.4(c), failure or refusal to act produces deemed rejection on the last applicable day.

Government Code 6800, 6700, 6706 and 6707 govern the identified agency-time and holiday questions. The agency calendar is not interchangeable with CCP 135 judicial holidays. Section 6700 specifies local-adoption qualifications, while section 6707 separately protects state-agency filing on Saturday or a holiday. Agency presentation requires the actual recipient and method under section 915. The current preset does not identify the entity or implement its agency calendar. The presentation and board-action guides therefore compute no final agency date.

Claim presentation, ordinary claim rejection and late-application denial are different events. Section 915.2(a) deems proper mail presented and received at deposit. Its subsection (b) provides specified mail-response additions but excludes the section 945.6 notice and post-denial complaint filing. Section 915.4 separately permits identified electronic notice. The six-month notice preset accepts only the qualified personal-delivery or mail-deposit branch; it does not resolve electronic notice. The petition preset accepts the independently established actual or deemed application-denial date, not a later notice-receipt date.

Official sections were reviewed. The three court-filing presets require triggers on or after January 1, 2024 and final dates within the retained 2026 or 2027 judicial calendar. The unchanged section 945.6 text and the current section 946.6 edition are retained. Every other referenced requirement must still apply to the actual facts. Earlier editions, later amendments, emergency orders, additional closures, disputed accrual, excluded intervals and relief branches require separate review. These software coverage limits do not establish that an actual filing is late.

Fictitious boards receiving an original claim and a later amended claim can have different action periods. A written extension also affects the no-qualified-notice suit period through section 945.6(a)(2). A late-claim application follows section 911.6 instead. One presentation-date preset cannot resolve these comparisons.

The original or amended presentation clock, mail-response adjustments, written agreement and agency holidays require distinct inputs. The forty-five-day preset cannot establish a final board-action or deemed-rejection date.

Written extension

Section 912.4(b) permits agreement before expiry, or afterward if no action has commenced and it is not already barred under section 945.6. Preserve the entire agreed interval.

Mail response addition

Section 915.2(b) gives stated mail additions for notice periods and duties to respond after receipt or service. Resolve the applicable method and address before treating the forty-five-day component as final.

No new two-year anchor

Without qualified section 913 notice, section 945.6(a)(2) runs from legal accrual, excluding a qualifying section 912.4(b) extension interval. Deemed rejection does not start two fresh years.

Late-claim application differs

Section 911.6 supplies the application decision clock and only allows its written extension made before expiry. Do not import section 912.4’s post-expiry permission.

Agency final-day treatment

Government Code 6800 excludes the first day and includes the last unless it is a holiday. Sections 6700 and 6706 address agency holidays and the next business day. Section 6707 separately protects documents filed with a state agency on Saturday or a holiday. The agency calendar can include days excluded from judicial holidays by CCP 135, and section 6700 specifies local-adoption qualifications. This preset has no entity or agency-calendar input. Its judicial rollover cannot determine the final agency presentation date.

Presentation and notice methods

Claim presentation, ordinary claim rejection and late-application denial are different events. Section 915.2(a) deems proper mail presented and received at deposit. Its subsection (b) provides specified mail-response additions but excludes the section 945.6 notice and post-denial complaint filing. Section 915.4 separately permits identified electronic notice. The six-month notice preset accepts only the qualified personal-delivery or mail-deposit branch; it does not resolve electronic notice. The petition preset accepts the independently established actual or deemed application-denial date, not a later notice-receipt date.

Edition and judicial-calendar coverage

Official sections were reviewed. The three court-filing presets require triggers on or after January 1, 2024 and final dates within the retained 2026 or 2027 judicial calendar. The unchanged section 945.6 text and the current section 946.6 edition are retained. Every other referenced requirement must still apply to the actual facts. Earlier editions, later amendments, emergency orders, additional closures, disputed accrual, excluded intervals and relief branches require separate review. These software coverage limits do not establish that an actual filing is late.

• Distinguish an original claim, an amended claim and a late-claim application. Establish proper presentation, service method, any written agreement and the agency holiday rules.
• The original or amended presentation clock, mail-response adjustments, written agreement and agency holidays require distinct inputs. The forty-five-day preset cannot establish a final board-action or deemed-rejection date.

• Actual legally effective claim presentation, or presentation of the amended claim
• Section 912.4(a) measures the amended-claim branch from amendment presentation. Under section 915.2(a), qualifying mail is deemed presented and received at deposit, not later postal delivery.
• Section 912.4(b) permits agreement before expiry, or afterward if no action has commenced and it is not already barred under section 945.6. Preserve the entire agreed interval.
• Section 915.2(b) gives stated mail additions for notice periods and duties to respond after receipt or service. Resolve the applicable method and address before treating the forty-five-day component as final.
• Without qualified section 913 notice, section 945.6(a)(2) runs from legal accrual, excluding a qualifying section 912.4(b) extension interval. Deemed rejection does not start two fresh years.
• Section 911.6 supplies the application decision clock and only allows its written extension made before expiry. Do not import section 912.4’s post-expiry permission.
• Government Code 6800 excludes the first day and includes the last unless it is a holiday. Sections 6700 and 6706 address agency holidays and the next business day. Section 6707 separately protects documents filed with a state agency on Saturday or a holiday. The agency calendar can include days excluded from judicial holidays by CCP 135, and section 6700 specifies local-adoption qualifications. This preset has no entity or agency-calendar input. Its judicial rollover cannot determine the final agency presentation date.
• Preserve the presentation record, any amendment, the board’s act and every written extension. Under section 912.4(c), failure or refusal to act produces deemed rejection on the last applicable day.
• Preserve the correct recipient, permitted method, contents and legally effective agency presentation or board act. This is separate from filing an action or petition in court.