Establishing fair hearing appeal procedures for administrative and judicial review of human services matters and benefit programs; granting persons involved in fair hearing appeals the right of access to case files and private welfare data; requiring agencies involved in appeals to prepare state agency appeal summaries for delivery to the person involved, specifying certain summary content requirements; providing for prehearing conferences to address certain issues, specifying certain duties of the appeals referee; prescribing an expedited process for appeal requests for emergency assistance or other urgent matters; providing for requests for continuance, rescheduling or adjournment and for subpoenas for witnesses or evidence, department of human services to be responsible for service of subpoenas, authorizing individual or entity petitions for vacation or modification, requiring resolution in a prehearing conference; prohibiting ex parte contact between appeals referees and the agency, participants or witnesses; authorizing face to face or electronic appeals, regulating conduct; providing for interpreter and translation services; authorizing referee dismissal of the appeal for failure to appear, authorizing reopening for a show of good cause; providing for commencement and conduct of the hearing, requiring the hearing to address the correctness and legality of the agency action; providing for the burden of persuasion, for written comment by the department to assist in resolving pending appeals and for development and closing of the record; requiring referee assistance to unrepresented persons; requiring and providing for timely decisions, specifying certain decision content requirements; prohibiting appeals referees from independently investigating facts or relying on information not presented at the hearing; requiring the chief appeals referee to review recommended decisions for acceptance or rejection purposes, specifying certain notice and proposed modification requirements for rejected decisions; authorizing reconsideration, providing for findings of fact and conclusions of law, requiring written decisions on reconsiderations by the director of the appeals division; providing for access to appeal decisions (ra)