Alcohol and drug programs.

Under existing law, the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse and problem gambling. Existing law requires the department to issue allocations of state and federal funds available to counties to provide alcohol and other drug programs. Existing law also requires counties that utilize these funds to adopt and submit to the department a county plan and negotiated net amount contract for department review and approval or disapproval, as specified. Existing law provides that, effective July 1, 2013, the administrative and programmatic functions that were previously performed by the department are transferred to departments within the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law also provides that the ultimate placement of these functions is contingent upon the Budget Act of 2013 and implementing legislation. This bill would, on July 1, 2013, transfer the administration of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse to the State Department of Health Care Services and services for problem gambling to the State Department of Public Health, and would make related changes. The bill would require, by April 1, 2014, and March 1 annually thereafter, until July 1, 2018, the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public Health to make specified reports on the substance use disorders services program, as provided, and on the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling, as provided, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees of the Legislature, and publicly post their reports on their respective Internet Web sites. Existing law imposes certain requirements on the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs and on the Judicial Council relating to the design and implementation of specified drug court programs. Existing law also requires the department to establish community-based recovery programs to treat the problems of alcohol and other drug use among youth, as specified, and to develop and implement a statewide prevention campaign designed to deter the abuse of methamphetamine in California. Existing law authorizes the department to implement a program for the establishment of group homes for alcohol and other drug abusers, and to establish the Resident-Run Housing Revolving Fund for the purpose of making loans to group resident-run homes in conformance with federal law. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2013. Existing law requires a county that applies for funds to provide alcohol and other drug abuse to prepare and submit a contract for alcohol and other drug abuse services to the department. Under existing law, net negotiated amount contracts that are in effect on June 27, 2012, are deemed contracts for alcohol and other drug abuse services for purposes of a county's application for these funds. This bill would delete the provision deeming net negotiated amount contracts to be contracts for alcohol and other drug abuse services. This bill would appropriate the sum of $2,004,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the State Department of Health Care Services for mental health programs. The bill would make further technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.