This measure would proclaim the week of March 6, 2022, to March 12, 2022, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
This measure would proclaim March 2022 as Visual and Performing Arts Education Month and urge all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality visual and performing arts education programs for children and youth.
Existing law provides generally for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including, but not limited to, general acute care hospitals, special hospitals, and acute psychiatric hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law includes within the definition of a health facility a psychiatric health facility, defined as a health facility, licensed by the State Department of Health Care Services, as specified, to provide 24-hour inpatient care for individuals with mental health disorders. This bill would additionally include an "intensive behavioral health treatment facility," which would be licensed by the State Department of Public Health, within the definition of a health facility. The bill would define an intensive behavioral health treatment facility as a freestanding health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient intensive behavioral health treatment services to specified individuals with behavioral health conditions, including, but not limited to, eating disorders, with the intent of assisting clients in transitioning to lower levels of care. The bill would require a client of an intensive behavioral health treatment facility to have a primary care need of treatment for a behavioral health disorder, who is capable of performing age-appropriate activities of daily living without direct assistance, and meets other specified criteria. The bill would specify licensure application requirements similar to those applicable to psychiatric health facilities, and program aspects of intensive behavioral health treatment facilities for review and approval by the department. The bill would require the facility to develop and implement policies and procedures regarding discharge and transfer. The bill would prescribe various rights to which a client of an intensive behavioral health treatment is entitled, including, among others, the right to be free of interference, coercion, discrimination, and reprisal from the facility in exercising their rights, and the right to file a complaint with the department for any reason. This bill would require the department to develop regulations to govern intensive behavioral health treatment facilities that are commensurate to the services provided to patients seeking less than acute care, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish a system for the imposition of civil sanctions against intensive behavioral health treatment facilities in violation of applicable laws and regulations. The bill would authorize the State Public Health Officer to impose those sanctions, including cease and desist orders and specified monetary sanctions, if it determines that there is or has been a failure, in a substantial manner, on the part of an intensive behavioral health treatment facility to comply with those laws and regulations.
This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University of California Student Association as a contributor to the accessibility, affordability, and quality of postsecondary education, and as an influential voice of University of California students. The measure would recognize the continued need to protect and expand student representation by recognizing February 11, 2022, as "Student Representation Day."
This measure would declare February 4, 2022, as Wear Read Day in California and would declare February 2022 as American Heart Month.
This measure would proclaim the week of March 7, 2022, to March 13, 2022, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA) , which is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, governs the funding and provision of postemployment health care benefits for eligible retired public employees and their families. PEMHCA prohibits employees, annuitants, and family members who become eligible to enroll on or after January 1, 1985, in Part A and Part B of Medicare from being enrolled in a basic health benefit plan. Existing provides that if the employee, annuitant, or family member is enrolled in Part A and Part B of Medicare, they may enroll in a Medicare health benefit plan. This bill would prohibit a person who enters into service with the state or any agency, department, authority, or instrumentality of the state or a contracting agency subject to PEMHCA, on or after January 1, 2023, from being reimbursed for, or receiving, any subsidy for health care expenses or coverage after retirement from service, if that the person is eligible to enroll in Part A and Part B of Medicare.
