Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law requires family planning services to be offered to all former, current, or potential Medi-Cal recipients of childbearing age and provided to all eligible individuals who voluntarily request the services. Existing law also establishes the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department, Planning, under which comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, as revised annually, and who is eligible to receive these services. This bill would clarify that the requirement to provide family planning benefits under the Medi-Cal program does not prohibit family planning services from being delivered through telehealth, including mobile telehealth delivered according to clinical guidelines. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2020, require the Family PACT Program to cover services provided by a Family PACT provider through direct video and telephonic communications with a provider and direct or asynchronous care provided through a smartphone application that is appropriate to be delivered remotely based on current clinical guidelines. Beginning January 1, 2020, the bill would allow Family PACT providers to determine program eligibility remotely and to enroll clients remotely, as specified, and would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to develop program policies to support implementation of offsite eligibility determination and enrollment. The bill would, if a patient is ineligible for the Family PACT Program, but may be eligible for more comprehensive health care coverage through Medi-Cal or Covered California, require the Family PACT provider to share information with the patient about his or her coverage options, beginning January 1, 2020.
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This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump to rescind three Executive orders issued on May 25, 2018, providing guidance to federal agencies regarding federal employees' representation, collective bargaining, and due process rights.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements projects undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in a disaster-stricken area, in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor. This bill would, until January 1, 2024, provide for streamlined judicial review for actions or proceedings brought pursuant to CEQA on the adoption or approval of amendments to the Downtown Station Area Specific Plan for the City of Santa Rosa meeting certain requirements or on the approval of residential projects that are consistent with the amended Downtown Station Area Specific Plan. This bill, until January 1, 2024, would authorize a streamlined judicial review for the adoption or amendment of a planning document by a local public agency that includes certain parcels within the portions of the City of Santa Rosa or unincorporated areas of the County of Sonoma (RED Area) for certain purposes. The bill would require a local public agency to use specified procedures for conducting the environmental review for the adoption or amendments of the RED Area plan, including the current preparation of the record of proceedings, as provided. This bill, until January 1, 2024, would exempt from the requirements of CEQA certain projects located at certain parcels owned by the City of Santa Rosa or the County of Sonoma within the City of Santa Rosa and certified by a local agency as meeting certain requirements. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of the above-specified exemptions for projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Santa Rosa and the County of Sonoma. 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, the Coast Life Support District Act, establishes the Coast Life Support District and specifies the powers of the district. The district is authorized, among other things, to supply the inhabitants of the district emergency medical services, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the district to provide urgent medical care services. Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, formerly known as the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985, among other things, establishes procedures for consideration of a proposal for change of organization, which is defined to include a proposal for the exercise of new or different functions or classes of services, or the divestiture of the power to provide particular functions or classes of services, within all or part of the jurisdictional boundaries of a special district. The Coast Life Support District Act requires the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985 to govern any change of organization of the district following its formation. This bill would update Coast Life Support District Act's reference to the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985 to instead reference the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, and would, if the board of directors of the Coast Life Support District desires to exercise the power to provide urgent medical care services, require the board to first receive the approval of the local agency formation commission. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Coast Life Support District.
This measure would proclaim September 30, 2018, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.
This measure would state the intent of the Legislature to take the opportunity preceding the 4th of July holiday to recognize and celebrate July 4, 2018, and the 242nd anniversary of the birth of our great nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence that this day represents.
This measure would recognize August 15, 2018, as India's Independence Day, and urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would proclaim the month of July 2018 as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month in California and would recognize the need for greater research, treatment, and care options regarding uterine fibroids.
This measure would proclaim October 9th as Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) Awareness Day in California, and would encourage the citizens of California, on that day, to become informed and aware of PANS.
This measure would recognize the legacy of California's pioneer Chinese Americans and honor their contributions and the important role they played in the history of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.