Health.

(1) Existing law transfers the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to the State Department of Health Care Services, except as specified. This bill would, until July 1, 2017, authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to liquidate the prior years' encumbrances previously obligated by the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. The bill would require the Controller to transfer the balances of certain prior year appropriations from the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to the State Department of Health Care Services for these purposes. (2) Existing law transfers the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs as they relate to the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling to the State Department of Public Health. This bill, until July 1, 2017, would authorize the State Department of Public Health to liquidate the prior years' encumbrances previously obligated by the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling. The bill would require the Controller to transfer the balances of certain prior year appropriations from the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling to the State Department of Public Health for these purposes. (3) Existing law, the Investment in Mental Health Wellness Act of 2013, requires that funds appropriated by the Legislature to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (authority) for the purposes of the act be made available to selected counties or counties acting jointly, except as otherwise provided, and used to increase capacity for client assistance and services in crisis intervention, crisis stabilization, crisis residential treatment, rehabilitative mental health services, and mobile crisis support teams. Among other things, the act authorizes the authority to adopt emergency regulations relating to the grants for the capital capacity and program expansion projects, including emergency regulations that define eligible costs and determine minimum and maximum grant amounts. This bill would require that these emergency regulations be adopted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as specified. (4) Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) within state government, specifies the powers and duties of the executive board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans through the Exchange by qualified individuals and small employers by January 1, 2014. Existing law requires the board to undertake outreach and enrollment activities that seek to assist enrollees and potential enrollees with enrolling in the Exchange, and requires the board to inform individuals of eligibility requirements for the Medi-Cal program, the Healthy Families Program, or any applicable state or local public program and, if, through screening of the application by the Exchange, the Exchange determines that an individual is eligible for any of those programs, to enroll that individual in the program. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to accept contributions by private foundations in specified amounts for purposes of making payments to entities and persons for Medi-Cal in-person enrollment assistance, as specified, and to provide allocations for the management and funding of Medi-Cal outreach and enrollment plans, as specified. This bill would establish the Healthcare Outreach and Medi-Cal Enrollment Account, consisting of non-General Fund public and private funds, in the Special Deposit Fund for purposes of outreach to and enrollment of targeted Medi-Cal populations and to compensate Medi-Cal in-person assisters. The bill would appropriate the sum of $14,000,000 from this account and the sum of $14,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the State Department of Health Care Services for purposes of compensating eligible Medi-Cal in-person assisters. The bill would appropriate the sum of $12,500,000 from the account and the sum of $12,500,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the State Department of Health Care Services to provide allocations for outreach and enrollment grants to eligible entities, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to use up to $500,000 of these funds for administrative activities, as specified. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2018, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2019. The bill would also make conforming changes related to these provisions. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.