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, including specialty mental health services, and Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment services for an individual under 21 years of age. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care health plans, including mental health plans that provide specialty mental health services. Existing law requires the department to ensure that Medi-Cal managed care contracts include a process for screening, referral, and coordination with mental health plans of specialty mental health services, to convene a steering committee to provide advice on the transition and continuing development of the Medi-Cal mental health managed care systems, and to ensure that the mental health plans comply with various standards, including maintaining a system of outreach to enable Medi-Cal beneficiaries and providers to participate in and access Medi-Cal specialty mental health services under the mental health plans. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2022, the department, in consultation with specified groups, including representatives from the County Welfare Directors Association of California, to identify all forms currently used by each county mental health plan contractor for purposes of determining eligibility and reimbursement for specialty mental health services provided under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program, and to develop standard forms for the intake of, assessment of, and the treatment planning for, Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are eligible for those services to be used by all counties. The bill would authorize the department to develop and maintain a list of department-approved nonstandard forms, and would require the department to conduct, on or before July 1, 2022, regional trainings for county mental health plan personnel and their provider networks on proper completion of the standard forms. The bill would require each county mental health plan contractor to distribute the training material and standard forms to their provider networks, and to commence, by July 1, 2022, exclusively using the standard forms, unless they use department-approved nonstandard forms.
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Existing state constitutional law governing insurance taxation imposes an annual tax on the gross premiums of an insurer, as defined, doing business in this state at specified rates. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law impose taxes upon taxable income for the taxable year, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax Law, and the law governing the taxation of insurers allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a low-income housing tax credit allocated by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. This bill would allow a credit against the taxes imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax Law, and the law governing the taxation of insurers (CDC tax credit) for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, in an amount equal to the applicable credit percentage of the amount of each qualified investment made by the taxpayer during the taxable year to an eligible community development corporation that is certified by the Treasurer to receive an allocation of tax credit pursuant to the Community Development Tax Credit Program established by this bill, not to exceed $20,000,000, if the aggregate amount of qualified investments made by the taxpayer in the taxable year is at least $100,000. This bill would establish the Community Development Tax Credit Program, which would be administered by the Treasurer in collaboration with the Department of Community Services and Development for the purpose of certifying CDC tax credit allocations to eligible community development corporations. The bill would allow an eligible community development corporation that is issued a certification to transfer its allocation of CDC tax credits to taxpayers who make qualified investments to that eligible community development corporation. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2021, the Department of Community Services and Development to develop and provide forms for, and establish uniform procedures for the submission and review of, applications for an allocation of CDC tax credits to eligible community development corporations. The bill would require the Treasurer, among other things, to accept and evaluate applications in order to certify an allocation of CDC tax credits to an eligible community development corporation, and, beginning with the 2021 calendar year, allocate the CDC tax credits for a current calendar year, in an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 per calendar year, among eligible community development corporations pursuant to specified criteria. This bill would provide that CDC tax credit allocations are to be made by the Treasurer only for those calendar years in which the Legislature increases the aggregate credit amount that may be allocated annually by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee for the low-income housing tax credits by $50,000,000 or more for the calendar year by legislation enacted after January 1, 2020, and reserves that additional allocation amount for CDC tax credits. The bill would provide that the CDC tax credits allowed for a taxable year is zero unless the Legislature acts in the above-described manner. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, including a tax credit under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law, to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would comply with those new tax expenditure requirements. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the Bureau of Automotive Repair, to adopt a program that allows for the voluntary retirement of passenger vehicles and light- and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. Existing establishes the Clean Cars 4 All Program, administered by the state board, to focus on achieving reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, improvements in air quality, and benefits to low-income state residents through the replacement of high-polluter motor vehicles with cleaner and more efficient motor vehicles or a mobility option, as specified. Existing law requires the state board to provide specified amounts of compensation for the retirement or replacement of eligible vehicles under those programs. This bill would require the state board to increase the compensation incentives provided pursuant to the Clean Cars 4 All Program by 50% if the recipient is a super commuter, as defined, and uses the incentive to replace an eligible vehicle with a zero-emission vehicle.
Existing law establishes the state highway system throughout the state and designates State Route 59 from State Route 152 northerly to State Route 99 near the City of Merced to the community of Snelling. This bill would extend State Route 59 from the community of Snelling to State Route 120.
Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, which is a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education, with the purpose of encouraging and maintaining the delivery of career technical education programs. Existing law establishes the Strong Workforce Program, which provides funding to career technical education regional consortia made up of community college districts. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to provide a report to the Legislature containing specified information for each community college program that offers certificates or degrees related to allied health professionals. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure that eligible career technical educational programs qualify for available state funding, as specified.
Under the Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000, property may be contributed to departments, as defined, any local government, or any nonprofit organization designated by a local government or department, based on specified criteria, in order to provide for the protection of wildlife habitat, open space, and agricultural lands. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the title of this act.
The California State Lottery Act of 1984, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 1984, statewide general election, authorizes a California State Lottery and provides for its operation and administration by the California State Lottery Commission. Existing statutory provisions under the act prohibit state and local taxes from being imposed upon any prize awarded by the lottery, including upon any amount received by a prizewinner pursuant to an assignment, as specified. Existing law excepts from this taxing prohibition, the imposition of property taxes or license fees for a noncash prize. ACA ____ of the 2019–20 Regular Session, if approved by the voters, would amend the act by amending the California Constitution to impose state taxes on lottery prizes, as specified. This bill would implement ACA ____ of the 2019–20 Regular Session by authorizing the imposition of state taxes on lottery prizes to the extent authorized by the California Constitution. The bill would become operative only if ACA ____ of the 2019–20 Regular Session is approved by the voters.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.