Asm. Rudy Salas, Jr.

Primary AB 383

Passed · California Assembly · Lead sponsor

Behavioral health: older adults.

Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) , an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs, including the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act. Existing law authorizes the MHSA to be amended by a 23 vote of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes of, the MHSA, and also permits the Legislature to clarify procedures and terms of the MHSA by a majority vote. This bill would establish within the State Department of Health Care Services an Older Adult Behavioral Health Services Administrator to oversee behavioral health services for older adults. The bill would require that position to be funded with administrative funds from the Mental Health Services Fund. The bill would prescribe the functions of the administrator and its responsibilities, including, but not limited to, developing outcome and related indicators for older adults for the purpose of assessing the status of behavioral health services for older adults, monitoring the quality of programs for those adults, and guiding decisionmaking on how to improve those services. The bill would require the administrator to receive data from other state agencies and departments to implement these provisions, subject to existing state or federal confidentiality requirements. The bill would require the administrator to report to the entities that administer the MHSA on those outcome and related indicators by July 1, 2022, and would require the report to be posted on the department's internet website. The bill would also require the administrator to develop a strategy and standardized training for all county behavioral health personnel in order for the counties to assist the administrator in obtaining the data necessary to develop the outcome and related indicators. This bill would declare that it clarifies procedures and terms of the Mental Health Services Act.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HR 62

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Red Ribbon Week.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 50

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to California Impaired Driving Prevention Month.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 65

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to sarcoma awareness.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 66

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Women's Equality Day.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 64

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 56

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to public health.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor AJR 5

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Wild free-roaming horses and burros: protection: roundup moratorium.

This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The measure would additionally urge the federal administration to immediately declare a moratorium on all further wild horse and burro roundups, to establish management of these animals informed by independent science and the American public, and to restore a thriving ecological balance to California wild horse and burro areas and territories.

Passed Aug 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor ACR 87

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

This measure would proclaim June 4, 2021, as National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2021 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HR 52

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Kimchi Day.

Passed Aug 23, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track