Public health.

(1) Existing law regulates provision of programs and services relating to mental health and alcohol and drug abuse at the state and local levels and serving various populations. These provisions contain various obsolete references to the California Mental Health Directors Association, the County Alcohol and Drug Program Administrators' Association of California, and similar entities. This bill would delete those obsolete references and would refer instead to the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and would make additional conforming changes to certain provisions relating to mental health directors and alcohol and drug program administrators. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to provide, no later than January 10 and concurrently with the May Revision of the annual budget, the fiscal committees of the Legislature with an estimate package for the Every Woman Counts Program for early detection of breast and cervical cancer. This bill would require the department additionally to provide to the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature quarterly updates on caseload, estimated expenditures, and related program monitoring data for the Every Woman Counts Program, as prescribed. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature that these provisions supersede similar reporting requirements imposed on the State Department of Public Health by specified uncodified legislation. (3) Existing law, for purposes of Medi-Cal provisions relating to entities that provide payment for certain covered services on behalf of eligible persons, enrollees, or subscribers, includes a nonprofit hospital service plan within the descriptions of a fiscal intermediary, a prepaid health plan, and group health coverage. This bill would delete a nonprofit hospital service plan from inclusion as a fiscal intermediary, prepaid health plan, or group health coverage, under the above circumstances. (4) Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, duties as State Registrar relating to the uniform administration of provisions relating to vital records and health statistics. Existing law requires the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to, upon request and payment of the required fee, supply to an applicant a certified copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, death, marriage, or marriage dissolution registered with the official. Existing law authorizes the issuance of certain records without payment of the fee. Existing law, on and after July 1, 2015, requires each local registrar or county recorder to issue, without a fee, a certified record of live birth to any person who can verify his or her status as a homeless person or a homeless child or youth, as defined. This bill would specify that no issuance or other related fee would be charged under the above circumstances. (5) Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Implementation Act of 2001, the Office of HIPAA Implementation assumes statewide leadership, coordination, policy formulation, direction, and oversight responsibilities for HIPAA implementation, and exercises full authority relative to state entities to establish policy, provide direction to state entities, monitor progress, and report on implementation efforts. Under existing law, these duties have been assumed by a successor entity, the Office of Health Information Integrity. These provisions become inoperative and are repealed as of June 30, 2016, at which time funds appropriated for purposes of the act that remain unexpended and unencumbered, revert to the General Fund. This bill would indefinitely extend the act and the operation of the office by deleting the June 30, 2016, repeal date. The bill would update references to the office to refer instead to the Office of Health Information Integrity.