Health care: workforce training.

Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and imposes certain requirements on health care service plans. Existing law imposes various fines and administrative penalties for certain violations of these provisions, which are deposited in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund. Existing law requires the first $1,000,000 in the fund to be transferred each year to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians in the Health Professions Education Fund for purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Existing law requires all remaining funds to be transferred each year to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund for purposes of the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program. This bill, beginning on the date that the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program becomes inoperative, would instead require all remaining funds over the first $1,000,000 to be transferred each year to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the purposes of the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act. The bill would require the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in that regard.