The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, would allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer that is transferred, and allocated, credits pursuant to the sale of a multifamily rental housing development or mobilehome park to a qualified developer, as defined, that has received a credit reservation from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, in specified amounts. The bill would require the credits to be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. The bill would limit the aggregate amount of credit that may be allocated by the committee, as provided. The bill would also provide that the credit amount shall be $0 for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, unless otherwise specified in a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Act. Existing law requires that any bill introduced on or after January 1, 2020, that would authorize certain tax expenditures, as defined, or tax exemptions contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure or exemption will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
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Existing law authorizes counties, cities, and other local agencies to impose various taxes and fees in connection with activity or property within those jurisdictions. The California Constitution also authorizes a charter city to levy local taxes to raise revenues for local purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by that city's charter or preemption in matters of statewide concern. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose a local sales and use tax in accordance with that law for tangible personal property sold at retail in the county or city, or purchased for storage, use, or other consumption in the county or city. That law requires the county or city to contract with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the administration of the taxes and requires the department to transmit those taxes to the city or county. Existing law, until January 1, 2031, prohibits the imposition, increase, levy and collection, or enforcement by a local agency of any tax, fee, or other assessment on groceries, except as provided, and allows a local agency to continue to levy and collect, enforce, or reauthorize any tax, fee, or other assessment on groceries imposed, extended, or increased on or before January 1, 2018. Existing law also requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to cease administering the Bradley-Burns local sales and use tax of a local agency that is found by a court, as provided, to have violated the grocery tax prohibition. This bill would repeal the prohibition on the imposition, increase, levy and collection, or enforcement by a local agency of any tax, fee, or other assessment on groceries, including the requirement that the department cease administering a local sales and use tax.
Existing law makes legislative findings and declarations on health information technology, including that there is a need to promote secure electronic health data exchange among specified individuals, such as health care providers and consumers of health care, and that specified federal law provides unprecedented opportunity for California to develop a statewide health information technology infrastructure to improve the state's health care system. 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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. This bill would establish the statewide health information network (statewide HIN) governing board, an independent public entity not affiliated with an agency or department with specified membership, to provide the data infrastructure needed to meet California's health care access, equity, affordability, public health, and quality goals, as specified. The bill would require the governing board to issue a request for proposals to select an operating entity with specified minimum capabilities to support the electronic exchange of health information between, and aggregate and integrate data from multiple sources within, the State of California, among other responsibilities. The bill would require the statewide HIN to take specified actions with respect to reporting on, and auditing the security and finances of, the health information network. The bill would require the statewide HIN to convene a health technology advisory committee with specified membership to advise the statewide HIN and set agendas, hold public meetings with stakeholders, and solicit external input on behalf of the statewide HIN. The bill would also require a health care entity, including a hospital, health system, skilled nursing facility, laboratory, physician practice, health care service plan, health insurer, and the State Department of Health Care Services, to submit specified data to the operating entity. The bill would authorize the statewide HIN to add additional health care entities or data to the list of entities required to submit data to the statewide HIN by adopting a subsequent regulation. The bill would also require a health care service plan, health insurer, and a health care provider to collect and submit health equity data to the operating entity.
Existing law requires the Department of Technology to improve the governance and implementation of information technology by standardizing reporting relationships, roles, and responsibilities for setting information technology priorities. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund program to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians. Existing law provides that the goal of the program is to, no later than December 31, 2022, approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households, as provided. This bill would enact the Broadband for All Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to support the 2022 Broadband for All Program that would be administered by the department for purposes of providing financial assistance for projects to deploy broadband infrastructure and broadband internet access services. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election.
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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. If an enrollee or insured receives services under a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2017, that includes coverage for out-of-network benefits, existing law authorizes a noncontracting individual health professional to bill or collect the out-of-network cost-sharing amount directly from the enrollee or insured if specified criteria are met, including that the enrollee or insured consents in writing to receive services from the noncontracting individual health professional at least 24 hours in advance of care. Existing law requires the consent to advise the enrollee or insured that they may seek care from a contracted provider for lower out-of-pocket costs and to be provided in the language spoken by the enrollee or insured, as specified. This bill would instead authorize a noncontracting individual health professional, excluding specified professionals, to bill or collect the out-of-network cost-sharing amount directly from the enrollee or insured receiving services under a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, if the enrollee consents in writing or electronically at least 72 hours in advance of care. The bill would require the consent to include a list of contracted providers at the facility who are able to provide the services and to be provided in the 15 most commonly used languages in the facility's geographic region.
(1) Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors in each county to designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates to apply for a health insurance affordability program, as defined, consistent with federal requirements. Commencing January 1, 2023, this bill would instead require the board of supervisors, in consultation with the county sheriff, to designate an entity or entities to assist both county jail inmates and juvenile inmates with the application process. The bill would make conforming changes to provisions relating to the coordination duties of jail administrators. By creating new duties for local officials, including boards of supervisors and jail administrators, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. No sooner than January 1, 2023, this bill would require the department to develop and implement a mandatory process for county jails and county juvenile facilities to coordinate with Medi-Cal managed care plans and Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery systems to facilitate continued behavioral health treatment in the community for inmates, as specified. The bill would authorize the sharing of health information, records, and other data with and among counties and other specified entities to the extent the department determines necessary to implement these provisions. (2) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, either through a fee-for-service or managed care delivery system. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law, the Medi-Cal 2020 Demonstration Project Act, requires the department to implement specified components of a Medi-Cal demonstration project, including the Global Payment Program (GPP) , the Whole Person Care pilot program, and the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) program, consistent with the Special Terms and Conditions approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Pursuant to existing law, the department has created a multiyear initiative, the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, for purposes of building upon the outcomes of various Medi-Cal pilots and demonstration projects, including the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project. Under the GPP, existing law makes designated public hospitals, and any successor or differently named hospital, eligible to receive global payments that are calculated using a value-based point methodology based on the health care that they provide to the uninsured. This bill would allow those designated hospitals, if restructured or reorganized, to continue to participate in the GPP. Commencing January 1, 2021, the bill would authorize the continuation of the GPP, as modified, and as a component of the CalAIM initiative. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, which revises hospital reimbursement methodologies in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with federal Medicaid law and stabilize the distribution of funding for hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured patients. Under the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project, existing law establishes prescribed payment methodologies and requirements relating to the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act. This bill would generally extend the specified payment methodologies set forth under the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project as part of the CalAIM initiative, and would make technical and conforming changes. For the 2020–21 state fiscal year, and subsequent state fiscal years, the bill would modify reimbursement methodologies for designated public hospitals, as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to establish and maintain a County Administrative Cost Control Plan whereby costs for county administration of the determination of eligibility for benefits under the Medi-Cal program are effectively controlled within the amounts annually appropriated for that administration. Existing law requires this plan to establish standards and performance criteria, including workload, productivity, and support services standards, and requires counties to adhere to these requirements. Existing law imposes various duties on counties relating to Medi-Cal eligibility, such as requiring counties to submit reconciliation files of its Medi-Cal eligible population to the department every 3 months. No later than July 1, 2022, this bill would require the department to issue guidance, in consultation with specified individuals and entities, including the exclusive representative of county eligibility workers, to restart county performance reporting and monitoring processes. During the consultation process, the bill would require the department to perform specified duties, such as reviewing the corrective action processes relating to prescribed provisions, including those on the County Administrative Cost Control Plan. Commencing with the 2017–18 state fiscal year, existing law requires the department, in consultation with the designated public hospital systems and applicable Medi-Cal managed care plans, to establish a program under which a designated public hospital system may earn performance-based quality incentive payments from Medi-Cal managed care plans, as specified, and requires payments to be earned by each designated public hospital system based on its performance in achieving identified targets for quality of care. Under existing law, these payments are federally and nonfederally funded, and the nonfederal share may consist of voluntary intergovernmental transfers of funds that the department, in its discretion, may deposit the transfer in the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Existing law requires the department to establish uniform performance measures and parameters for the designated public hospital systems to select the applicable measures, and requires these performance measures to advance at least one goal identified in the state's Medicaid quality strategy. Commencing with the 2020–21 state fiscal year, this bill would additionally require the department to consult with district and municipal hospitals, would expand the performance-based quality incentive payments to district and municipal hospitals, and would make various conforming changes relating to this expansion. By increasing the intergovernmental transfers of funds that the department may deposit in the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Through and until June 30, 2020, the bill would provide that specified performance measures shall not duplicate measures utilized in the PRIME program. Commencing with the 2020–21 state fiscal year, this bill would require specified payments to be earned by a district and municipal public hospital based on its performance in achieving identified targets for quality of care, would require the department to establish a class of district or municipal public hospitals, and would impose specified requirements relating to the implementation of these payments to district and municipal public hospitals. The bill would cease the implementation of the expanded quality incentive payments if the implementation is no longer financially and programmatically supportive of the Medi-Cal program, as determined pursuant to prescribed factors. (3) This bill would make its provisions severable and would make other legislative findings and declarations. (4) 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary direct election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,100,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all program. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters. This bill would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,080,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, and workforce development programs. This bill would provide for the submission of these provisions to the voters at the June 7, 2022, statewide primary election. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors in each county to designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates with applying for a health insurance affordability program, as defined, consistent with federal requirements. Commencing January 1, 2023, this bill would instead require the board of supervisors, in consultation with the county sheriff, to designate an entity or entities to assist both county jail inmates and juvenile inmates with the application process. The bill would make conforming changes to provisions relating to the coordination duties of jail administrators. By creating new duties for local officials, including boards of supervisors and jail administrators, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. No sooner than January 1, 2023, this bill would require the department to develop and implement a mandatory process for county jails and county juvenile facilities to coordinate with Medi-Cal managed care plans and Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery systems to facilitate continued behavioral health treatment in the community for inmates, as specified. The bill would authorize the sharing of health information, records, and other data with and among counties and other specified entities to the extent the department determines necessary to implement these provisions. (2) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including mental health and substance use disorder services, pursuant to a schedule of benefits, and through a fee-for-service or managed care delivery system. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, for individuals 21 years of age and older, a service is "medically necessary" if it is reasonable and necessary to protect life, to prevent significant illness or significant disability, or to alleviate severe pain. Existing law provides that for individuals under 21 years of age, "medically necessary" or "medical necessity" standards are governed by the definition in federal law. This bill would provide that the above-specified medical necessity standards do not preclude coverage for, and reimbursement of, a clinically appropriate and covered mental health or substance use disorder assessment, screening, or treatment service under specified circumstances, including before a provider renders their diagnosis. The bill would provide that the above-described medical necessity criteria for a Medi-Cal beneficiary under 21 years of age is applicable to the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. For the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years, the bill would require the department to include as part of the Medi-Cal program assumptions and estimates certain information relating to Medi-Cal specialty mental health services, including changes to the department's clinical auditing standards. The bill would require the department to develop, in consultation with specified individuals, including certain Medi-Cal providers, standardized screening tools and statewide transition tools, and to require the use of these tools after those tools have been field tested. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by various means, including provider bulletins, and, by July 1, 2023, would require the department to promulgate regulations, as necessary, on these provisions. (3) For purposes of the Medi-Cal program, behavioral health services, which encompass specialty mental health services and substance use disorder treatment are provided under the Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services Program, the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program, and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system, respectively. Under existing law, specialty mental health services and substance use disorder treatment are funded through certified public expenditures. Existing law requires the department to implement managed mental health care for purposes of delivering specialty mental health services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries through contracts with county mental health plans. Existing law, the Medi-Cal 2020 Demonstration Project Act, requires the department to implement specified components of a Medi-Cal demonstration project, including the Global Payment Program, the Whole Person Care pilot program, the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) program, and the Dental Transformation Initiative, consistent with the Special Terms and Conditions approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Pursuant to existing law, the department has created a multiyear initiative, the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, for purposes of building upon the outcomes of various Medi-Cal pilots and demonstration projects, including the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project. This bill would require the department to establish, implement, and administer the Behavioral Health Quality Improvement Program to assist county mental health plans and counties that administer the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program or the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system for purposes of preparing those entities for implementation of the behavioral health components included in CalAIM, and would establish in the State Treasury the Behavioral Health Quality Improvement Account to fund those efforts. The bill would require the department to determine the methodology and distribution of funds appropriated to those entities. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by various means, including provider bulletin, without taking regulatory action, and to enter into contracts that would be exempt from specified provisions of state contracting requirements. The bill would condition the implementation of these provisions to the extent that the department determines that federal financial participation is not jeopardized. For purposes of the CalAIM initiative, commencing January 1, 2022, this bill would require the department to continue to implement the Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system, as a component of CalAIM and consistent with the Special Terms and Conditions approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Commencing no sooner than July 1, 2022, the bill would require each Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery system to comply with the behavioral health payment reform provisions approved in the CalAIM Terms and Conditions. As a component of these payment reforms, the bill would require the department to design and implement, at a minimum, an intergovernmental transfer-based reimbursement methodology to replace the use of certified public expenditures for specified claims provided through Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery systems. Commencing no sooner than July 1, 2022, the bill would require the nonfederal share of any payments associated with Medi-Cal behavioral health systems to consist of voluntary intergovernmental transfers of funds provided by eligible governmental agencies or public entities associated with those systems. The bill would require the department to establish and implement prospective reimbursement rate methodologies utilizing past county cost experience for specified covered services provided through Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery systems. Commencing January 1, 2027, the bill would require a county, or counties acting jointly, to provide and administer covered behavioral health Medi-Cal benefits under a single Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery system contract pursuant to the CalAIM Terms and Conditions. Under the GPP, existing law makes designated public hospitals, and any successor or differently named hospital, eligible to receive global payments that are calculated using a value-based point methodology based on the health care that they provide to the uninsured. This bill would allow those designated hospitals, if restructured or reorganized, to continue to participate in the GPP. Commencing January 1, 2021, the bill would authorize the continuation of the GPP, as modified, and as a component of the CalAIM initiative. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, which revises hospital reimbursement methodologies in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with federal Medicaid law and stabilize the distribution of funding for hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured patients. Under the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project, existing law establishes prescribed payment methodologies and requirements relating to the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act. This bill would generally extend the specified payment methodologies set forth under the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project as part of the CalAIM initiative, and would make technical and conforming changes. For the 2020–21 state fiscal year, and subsequent state fiscal years, the bill would modify reimbursement methodologies for designated public hospitals, as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to establish and maintain the County Administrative Cost Control Plan, whereby costs for county administration of the determination of eligibility for benefits under the Medi-Cal program are effectively controlled within the amounts annually appropriated for that administration. Existing law requires this plan to establish standards and performance criteria, including workload, productivity, and support services standards, and requires counties to adhere to these requirements. Existing law imposes various duties on counties relating to Medi-Cal eligibility, such as requiring counties to submit reconciliation files of its Medi-Cal eligible population to the department every 3 months. No later than July 1, 2022, this bill would require the department to issue guidance, in consultation with specified individuals and entities, including the exclusive representative of county eligibility workers, to restart county performance reporting and monitoring processes. During the consultation process, the bill would require the department to perform specified duties, such as reviewing the corrective action processes relating to prescribed provisions, including those on the County Administrative Cost Control Plan. Commencing with the 2017–18 state fiscal year, existing law requires the department, in consultation with the designated public hospital systems and applicable Medi-Cal managed care plans, to establish a program under which a designated public hospital system may earn performance-based quality incentive payments from Medi-Cal managed care plans, as specified, and requires payments to be earned by each designated public hospital system based on its performance in achieving identified targets for quality of care. Under existing law, these payments are federally and nonfederally funded, and the nonfederal share may consist of voluntary intergovernmental transfers of funds that the department, in its discretion, may deposit the transfer in the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Existing law requires the department to establish uniform performance measures and parameters for the designated public hospital systems to select the applicable measures and requires these performance measures to advance at least one goal identified in the state's Medicaid quality strategy. Commencing with the 2020–21 state fiscal year, this bill would additionally require the department to consult with district and municipal hospitals, would expand the performance-based quality incentive payments to district and municipal hospitals, and would make various conforming changes relating to this expansion. By increasing the intergovernmental transfers of funds that the department may deposit in the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Through and until June 30, 2020, the bill would provide that specified performance measures shall not duplicate measures utilized in the PRIME program. Commencing with the 2020–21 state fiscal year, this bill would require specified payments to be earned by a district and municipal public hospital based on its performance in achieving identified targets for quality of care, would require the department to establish a class of district or municipal public hospitals, and would impose specified requirements relating to the implementation of these payments to district and municipal public hospitals. The bill would cease the implementation of the expanded quality incentive payments if the implementation is no longer financially and programmatically supportive of the Medi-Cal program, as determined pursuant to prescribed factors. (4) The bill would make its provisions severable and would make other legislative findings and declarations. (5) 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing by the Board of Registered Nursing. The Vocational Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. The Nursing Practice Act establishes the Board of Registered Nursing Fund and the Vocational Nursing Practice Act establishes the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund. This bill would enact the Nurse Licensure Compact, under which the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians would be authorized to issue a multistate license that would authorize the holder to practice as a registered nurse or a licensed vocational nurse, as applicable, in all party states under a multistate licensure privilege, as specified. The bill would designate the Board of Registered Nursing as the licensing board for registered nurses for purposes of the compact and would designate the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians as the licensing board for vocational nurses for purposes of the compact. The bill would require the boards to participate in a coordinated licensure information system that would include all of the licensure and disciplinary history of all licensed registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses. The bill would provide that the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians shall alternate as the administrator of the compact for the state and as members of an entity known as the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. The bill would authorize the commission to adopt rules that have the force and effect of law. The bill would prohibit fees collected by the Board of Registered Nursing or the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians for purposes of granting a multistate license pursuant to the bill from exceeding the cost of administering that multistate license under the compact and would require those fees to be deposited in the Board of Registered Nursing Fund or the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund, as applicable. By authorizing out-of-state licensees to practice in this state under the multistate compact privilege created by the bill, the bill would expand the scope of the criminal provisions of the Nursing Practice Act and Vocational Nursing Practice Act, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a licensee under the act to apply for renewal of their license every 2 years and allows an inactive license to be reactivated, as specified. This bill would authorize the board to reduce as prescribed the renewal fee for a licensee who meets certain age and practice qualifications.