Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to perform various duties relating to public health, including, but not limited to, administering programs related to the prevention of chronic diseases. This bill would provide that, in regard to a request for applications, a funding opportunity announcement, or other similar solicitation, if specified requirements are met, the State Department of Public Health may enter into an agreement with another eligible applicant making that applicant the lead agency, as specified. This bill would require a lead agency designee, among other things, to agree in advance to terms and conditions of the designation, set by the department, as specified.
This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2012–13 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
The Budget Bill, enacted as the Budget Act of 2012, would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2012–13 fiscal year. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2012 by revising items of appropriation, loans, and transfers of moneys specified in that act. This bill would become operative only if AB 1464 or SB 1004 is enacted as the Budget Act of 2012. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
Existing law, the California Early Intervention Services Act, provides a statewide system of coordinated, comprehensive, family-centered, multidisciplinary, and interagency programs that are responsible for providing appropriate early intervention services and support to all eligible infants and toddlers, as defined, and their families. The act requires these services to be provided pursuant to the existing regional center system under the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, and further requires the regional centers to comply with that act and its implementing regulations, as specified. This bill would provide that the use of private health insurance or a health care service plan to pay for early intervention services may not result in the loss of specified benefits for the covered individual or family, may not negatively affect the availability of health coverage for the covered individual or family, and may not be the basis for increasing health insurance or health care service plan premiums for the covered individual or family, as specified. Existing law authorizes a residential facility licensed as an adult residential facility, group home, small family home, foster family home, or a family home certified by a foster family agency, that serves individuals with developmental disabilities, to install and utilize delayed egress devices, as defined. This bill would additionally authorize a licensee of an adult residential facility or group home, that is utilizing delayed egress devices, and that serves individuals with developmental disabilities, to install and utilize secured perimeters, as defined, in accordance with specified provisions. This bill would also authorize a licensee of an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative, as defined, and an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled, as defined, to utilize delayed egress devices, as defined, in combination with secured perimeters, as defined, in accordance with specified provisions. The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act authorizes the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan (IPP) , developed in accordance with prescribed requirements. Existing law vests in the department jurisdiction over state hospitals referred to as developmental centers for the provision of residential care to persons with developmental disabilities. This bill would revise the provisions governing admission and stay in developmental centers, including limiting developmental center admissions for an acute crisis, as defined, to the Fairview Developmental Center, and limiting admission, generally, to persons meeting specified criteria. This bill would make related, conforming, and technical changes. This bill would require the department to establish a statewide specialized resource service for the purposes of tracking available services, and would require regional centers to complete comprehensive assessments, as specified. This bill would revise certain provisions relating to out-of-state placements, including limiting the purchase of out-of-state services to no more than 6 months, except as specified. This bill would require the department and the regional centers to annually compile and post specified data on their respective Internet Web sites. This bill, commencing July 1, 2012, would prohibit a regional center from purchasing new residential services from institutions for mental disease, as defined, except as specified. Existing law requires the department and regional centers to ensure that supported living arrangements for adults with developmental disabilities are made available, as specified. Existing law requires an independent assessment for consumers receiving supported living who have supported living service costs that exceed 125% of the annual statewide average cost of supported living services, as specified. This bill would delete the latter provision and would instead require the IPP team to complete a standardized assessment questionnaire at the time of development, review, or modification of a consumer's IPP. The bill would require the department to develop this questionnaire, post it on its Internet Web site, and provide it to the regional centers by June 30, 2012. The bill would require, upon a determination of a reduction in services pursuant to these provisions, that the regional center inform the consumer of the reason for the determination and provide a written notice of fair hearing rights, as specified. Existing law requires regional centers, in order to implement changes in the level of funding for regional center purchase of services, to reduce certain payments for services and supports by 4.25% from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2012, except as specified, and authorizes the temporary modification of personnel requirements, functions, or qualifications, or staff training requirements, and suspends prescribed annual review and reporting requirements for affected providers, until June 30, 2012. This bill would require regional centers, commencing July 1, 2012, until June 30, 2013, to reduce certain payments for services and supports by 1.25%. The bill would extend the authorization of temporary modification of personnel requirements, functions, or qualifications, or staff training requirements, as well as the suspension of the prescribed annual review and reporting requirements for affected providers, until June 30, 2013. Under existing law, regional center contracts require certain specified staffing levels and expertise, which are suspended from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2012. This bill would suspend those staffing requirements until June 30, 2013. This bill would, if a condition set forth in a specified provision of the Budget Act of 2012 is satisfied, state the intent of the Legislature for the department to identify up to $50,000,000 in General Fund savings from the developmental services system, as prescribed. This bill would require the department to consider input from prescribed stakeholders. This bill would require, as prescribed, the department to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee within 10 days of the specified reduction as directed within the Budget Act of 2012. This bill would appropriate $1,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Developmental Services for administration. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, whenever the sale or exchange of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to execute the grants. This bill would authorize the Director of General Services to transfer state property, known as the Harts Mill Forest Fire Station (Old) , to the County of Butte, as prescribed. If the property is transferred, the bill would require the County of Butte to maintain the property in perpetuity for parks and open-space purposes.
(1) Existing law imposes an excise tax on motor vehicle fuel (gasoline) . Existing law, as a result of the elimination of the sales tax on gasoline effective July 1, 2010, provides for a commensurate increase in the excise tax on gasoline. Article XIX of the California Constitution requires gasoline excise tax revenues from motor vehicles traveling upon public streets and highways to be deposited in the Highway Users Tax Account, for allocation to city, county, and state transportation purposes. Existing law generally provides for statutory allocation of gasoline excise tax revenues attributable to other modes of transportation, including aviation, boats, agricultural vehicles, and off-highway vehicles, to particular accounts and funds for expenditure on purposes associated with those other modes. Expenditure of the gasoline excise tax revenues attributable to those other modes is not restricted by Article XIX of the California Constitution. This bill, with respect to the increase in gasoline excise taxes as a result of the elimination of the sales tax on gasoline, would instead transfer the revenues attributable to aviation, boats, agricultural vehicles, and off-highway vehicles to the General Fund, commencing July 1, 2012, and ending June 30, 2015. The bill, with respect to these revenues already transferred to the particular nonhighway accounts and funds in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 fiscal years, would also transfer those revenues to the General Fund. Commencing July 1, 2015, the bill would instead transfer these revenues to the Highway Users Tax Account for allocation to state and local transportation purposes. Because that account is continuously appropriated, the bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law provides for the payment of current year general obligation bond debt service for specified voter-approved transportation bonds from various revenues deposited in the Transportation Debt Service Fund, including revenues from vehicle weight fees in the State Highway Account. Existing law also authorizes certain loans of vehicle weight fee revenue to the General Fund. Existing law, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, appropriates $866,300,000 from weight fee revenues in the State Highway Account for transfer to the General Fund as debt service reimbursement and loans. Existing law requires the Controller, upon notification by the Director of Finance that all debt service costs for the 2011–12 fiscal year have been reimbursed, to transfer any remaining weight fee revenues for that fiscal year in the State Highway Account to the General Fund as a loan until the $866,300,000 has been transferred to the General Fund. This bill would instead appropriate, for the fiscal year 2011–12, all annual revenue generated from the weight fees in the State Highway Account, excluding an amount equal to a loan of $43,700,000 authorized pursuant to the Budget Act of 2011, for transfer to the General Fund as debt service reimbursement and loans. Any revenues for that fiscal year that remain after reimbursement of the debt service costs would be transferred to the General Fund as a loan, and the bill would require $42,000,000 of those revenues to be transferred on July 1, 2012. (3) Existing law appropriates, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, all weight fee revenues deposited into the State Highway Account for transfer to the General Fund as reimbursement for debt service costs until all of the debt service paid on specified transportation bonds have been reimbursed or to redeem or defease bonds that are maturing in a subsequent year. This bill would require the Controller, upon notification by the Director of Finance that all debt service costs for the fiscal year have been reimbursed, to transfer any remaining revenue generated from the weight fees for that fiscal year to the General Fund as a loan. (4) Existing law requires public notice of a project under the State Contract Act to be given by publication in a newspaper or trade paper of general circulation, as specified. This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to alternatively meet the public notice requirement through electronic publication on the department's Internet Web site. (5) This bill would require the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to transfer $432,200,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account to the General Fund as a loan in the 2012–13 fiscal year, to be repaid upon order of the Director of Finance and no later than June 30, 2016. (6) The bill would make other related changes. (7) This bill would appropriate $1,000 to the California Transportation Commission from the General Fund relative to implementation of the bill. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Existing law provides for the CalFresh program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law provides that a person convicted of a drug-related felony, with certain exceptions, is eligible for aid under CalFresh, if any one of specified eligibility requirements is met. This bill instead would provide that a person convicted of any drug felony shall be eligible for aid under CalFresh, eliminate the above-referenced exceptions, and make related changes. The bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement its provisions through an all-county letter or similar instruction from the director. By changing the eligibility standards under CalFresh, this bill would increase the responsibilities of counties in the administration of the program, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law sets forth the duties and powers of the board of supervisors of a county and the county recorder and county assessor of each county. Existing law requires the county recorder to, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute or court order to be recorded, as specified. Existing law allows any instrument or judgment affecting the title to, or possession of, real property to be recorded. Existing law requires a document that effects or evidences a transfer or encumbrance of an interest in real property to include the name or names in which the interest appears of record. Existing law requires the county recorder of each county to establish a social security truncation program for the redaction of social security numbers to create a public record version of official records. This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of a county to establish a program that requires the names of certain public safety officials to be redacted from any property record of principal residence that is disclosed to the public by that county, except as specified. The bill would authorize a county to charge a fee for participation in the program. The bill would set forth requirements that would apply to the sale of aggregate data. The bill would require a county that establishes a program pursuant to this act to also ensure that the property record of a public safety official is redacted, as defined, in a specified manner when a search is conducted by index by name of the public safety official. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law authorizes licensed nonphysician providers that contract with a medical group, physician, or independent practice association to provide services to health care service plan enrollees to directly bill the plan for services rendered under certain circumstances. Existing law requires group health care service plans to authorize and permit assignment of a Medi-Cal beneficiary's right to reimbursement for covered services to the State Department of Health Care Services, except as specified. Existing law provides for the direct payment of group insurance medical benefits by a health insurer to the person or persons furnishing or paying for hospitalization or medical or surgical aid, as specified. This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that pays a contracting dental provider directly for covered services rendered to an enrollee or insured to also pay a noncontracting dental provider directly for covered services rendered to an enrollee or insured where the provider submits a written assignment of benefits signed by the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof, as specified. The bill would specify that a plan or insurer's payment pursuant to this provision discharges the plan or insurer's obligation with respect to the amount paid. The bill would also require a noncontracting dental provider to disclose to the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof that the provider is a noncontracting provider prior to accepting an assignment of benefits, and to provide additional specified written notices to the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof, including a written notice of the estimated full cost of the planned treatment and the estimated amount of those costs payable by the enrollee or insured. The bill would also prohibit a provider from collecting from an enrollee or insured any amount over the enrollee's or insured's estimated cost, and would require the provider to refund any overpayment to the enrollee or insured. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires the admission agreement for a residential care facility for the elderly to contain specified elements. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would prohibit a residential care facility for the elderly from assessing personal care fees upon notice of the death of a resident, and would prohibit the facility from assessing fees for the residential living unit of a deceased resident once all personal property of the deceased is removed. This bill would require an admission agreement to include a clear explanation of this prohibition. This bill would limit the liability for the payment of these fees that are not prohibited to prescribed individuals and entities. This bill would also require for a recipient receiving SSI/SSP, that a residential care facility for the elderly meet the requirements for the SSI/SSP program in assessing these fees, as prescribed by law. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would result in a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires all moneys in the State Treasury or under control of the Treasurer belonging to or in the custody of the state to be deposited by the Treasurer to the credit of the state in eligible banks, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Treasurer to determine what amounts of money shall be deposited as time deposits or demand deposits. This bill would require the Treasurer to ensure that at least 30% of the moneys invested in the time deposit program are invested in time deposits with community banks, as defined to mean a bank or savings institution in California with aggregate assets of less than $10,000,000,000, and credit unions, subject to specified considerations and a reporting requirement and to the extent consistent with liquidity requirements and prudent management.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences and imposes continuing education requirements for license renewal. Existing law specifies that certain accredited schools shall be deemed to be approved continuing education providers for these licensees. Existing law requires the board to approve other continuing education providers and authorizes the board to revoke or deny the right of those providers to offer coursework if they fail to comply with specified requirements. This bill would require continuing education providers other than accredited educational institutions and certain other institutions to be approved by an accrediting organization, and would delete the requirement for the board to approve or revoke those providers. The bill would make other conforming changes.
