(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified, low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law requires the department to develop and implement a Medi-Cal inpatient hospital reimbursement payment methodology based on diagnosis-related groups, subject to federal approval, that reflects the costs and staffing levels associated with quality of care for patients in all general acute care hospitals, as specified. Existing law generally requires the diagnosis-related group-based payments to apply to all claims. This bill would require claims for payments pursuant to the inpatient hospital reimbursement methodology described above to be increased by 16% for the 2015–16 fiscal year, and would require, commencing July 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the department to increase each diagnosis-related group payment claim amount based, at a minimum, on increases in the medical component of the California Consumer Price Index. Commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, and annually thereafter, the bill would require managed care rates for Medi-Cal managed care health plans to be increased by a proportionately equal amount for increased payments for hospital services. (2) Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would, instead, prohibit the application of those reductions for payments to providers for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also require payments for managed care health plans for dates of service following the effective date of the bill to be determined without application of some of those reductions. The bill would require the Director of Health Care Services to implement this provision to the maximum extent permitted by federal law and for the maximum time period for which the director obtains federal approval for federal financial participation for those payments. (3) Prior law required, beginning January 1, 2013, through and including December 31, 2014, that payments for primary care services provided by specified physicians be no less than 100% of the payment rate that applies to those services and physicians as established by the Medicare program, for both fee-for-service and managed care plans. This bill, commencing January 1, 2016, would require payments for specified medical care services to not be less than 100% of the payment rate that applies to those services as established by the Medicare program for services rendered by fee-for-service providers, and would require rates paid to Medi-Cal managed care plans to be actuarially equivalent to payment rates established by the Medicare program. The bill, commencing January 1, 2016, would require rates paid to Denti-Cal providers for dental services provided to adults and children to be increased by the equivalent percentage as the percentage increase required for other fee-for-service Medi-Cal providers. The bill would require those provisions to be implemented only to the extent permitted by federal law and that federal financial participation is available. The bill would authorize the department to implement those provisions through provider bulletins without taking regulatory action until regulations are adopted, and would require the department to adopt those regulations by July 1, 2018. The bill would require, commencing July 1, 2016, the department to provide a status report to the Legislature on a semiannual basis until regulations have been adopted. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Existing law provides funding for various career technical education programs, including regional occupational centers and programs, specialized secondary programs, partnership academies, and agricultural career technical education programs. This bill would appropriate the sum of $1,170,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the purposes of allocating funds to a certain county office of education in support of career technical education student organizations, as specified. The bill would also express various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to career technical education. Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to consolidate the needs of multiple state agencies and establish contracts, master agreements, multiple award schedules, and other types of agreements that leverage the state's buying power, as specified. Existing law authorizes the director to make the services of the Department of General Services available to school districts, and authorizes school districts to use agreements established by the department for the acquisition of information technology, goods, and services. This bill would require the department to seek bids for the purchase of portable electronic equipment and establish a process for local educational agencies to purchase the equipment under terms negotiated by the department.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and associated property. Existing law requires the department to offer to sell or exchange certain excess real property that consists of lands of notable environmental value to various public agencies for park purposes prior to disposing of the property. This bill would require the department to transfer certain vacant real property in the City of Los Angeles to that city for park purposes, subject to various terms and conditions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute.
(1) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. The act requires, for purposes of determining existing school building capacity, the calculation to be adjusted as required for first priority status, as provided, relating to multitrack year-round schools, and requires, notwithstanding those provisions, the existing school building capacity for a high school district to be calculated without regard to multitrack year-round school considerations. This bill would repeal that provision. This bill would require the board to convene a workgroup comprised of representatives of specified entities to recommend changes to the act that will shorten and streamline the process for construction and modernization of school facilities. The bill would require the board to submit a report containing those recommendations to the Legislature by September 1, 2016. The bill would authorize the board to require each school district that elects to participate in a new construction program to reestablish eligibility, as specified, and to conduct an inventory of existing facilities for purposes of maintaining a statewide school facilities inventory. The bill would delete a provision requiring the board to conduct an evaluation of the cost of new construction and modernization of small high schools in conjunction with a specified pilot program. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to, commencing with the proceeds from any bond approved by voters after January 1, 2016, adjust the local match requirements for a new construction grant based on a school district's ability to raise local revenue. The bill would, commencing with the proceeds from any bond approved by voters after January 1, 2016, authorize a grant for new construction to be used for additional specified purposes. The bill would require the Office of Public School Construction to recommend regulations to the State Allocation Board to provide school districts with flexibility in designing instructional facilities. The bill would authorize the board to require each school district that elects to participate in a modernization program funded by the proceeds of any bond approved by voters after January 1, 2016, to reestablish baseline eligibility, as specified, and to submit information describing existing facilities for purposes of establishing a statewide inventory, as specified. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to, commencing with the proceeds from any bond approved by voters after January 1, 2016, adjust the local match requirements for a modernization grant based on a school district's ability to raise local revenue. The bill would, commencing with the proceeds from any bond approved by voters after January 1, 2016, authorize a modernization apportionment to be used for additional specified purposes. The bill would require the Office of Public Construction to provide the board recommendations on the value of allowing school districts to replace existing facilities on existing schoolsites under certain conditions. (2) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would enact the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of ____ to authorize an unspecified amount of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, county boards of education, charter schools, the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities. The proceeds of these bonds would be deposited in the continuously appropriated ____ State School Facilities Fund, which this bill would establish. The proposed bond act would become operative only if approved by the voters at an unspecified statewide general election, and the bill would provide for its submission to the voters at that election. (3) This bill would specify that certain of its provisions would become operative only if the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of ____ is approved by the voters at an unspecified statewide general election. (4) This bill would make conforming and nonsubstantive changes in related provisions of existing law.
(1) The Nonprofit Corporation Law authorizes a presiding officer of a religious denomination, society, or church to form a corporation sole for the purpose of administering and managing its affairs. The law requires the Secretary of State to file articles of incorporation of a corporation sole, if the articles of incorporation conform to law. This bill would require the Secretary of State, if he or she determines the articles of incorporation to form a corporation sole did not conform to law, to nonetheless file it if the articles of incorporation are resubmitted with an accompanying written opinion of a member of the State Bar of California that the specific provision of the articles of incorporation objected to by the Secretary of State conform to law and state the points and authorities upon which the written opinion is based. (2) Subject to conformance with law and filing with the Secretary of State, the Nonprofit Corporation Law authorizes a chief officer of a corporation sole to amend the articles of incorporation if the amendment includes a signed and verified statement setting forth the provisions of the amendment and stating that the amendment has been duly authorized by the religious organization governed by the corporation sole. The law also requires a declaration of dissolution of a corporation sole to include, among other things, a statement that the dissolution of the corporation sole has been duly authorized by the religious organization governed by the corporation sole. This bill would expand those provisions to also allow those statements to be duly authorized by the hierarchical religious organization or entity responsible for forming the corporation sole, or by the hierarchical religious organization or entity responsible for overseeing the corporation sole according to the rules, canons, regulations, or discipline of the religious denomination, society, or church as to which the corporation sole is affiliated. (3) The Nonprofit Corporation Law requires any assets of a dissolved corporation sole remaining after satisfying its debts and obligations to be transferred to the religious organization governed by the corporation sole, or to trustees on its behalf, or disposed of as may be decreed by the superior court of the county in which the dissolved corporation sole had its principal office. This bill would additionally authorize those assets to be transferred to the trustees on behalf of the corporation sole, the hierarchical religious organization or entity responsible for forming the corporation sole, or the hierarchical religious organization or entity responsible for overseeing the corporation sole according to the rules, canons, regulations, or discipline of the religious denomination, society, or church to which the corporation sole is affiliated. (4) This bill would also make various conforming and nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law, the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, imposes a tax upon the privilege of distributing motor fuel and defines the term "gasohol" for purposes of that law. Gasohol is defined as all blends of gasoline and alcohol containing more than 15% gasoline. This bill would redefine gasohol to instead mean all blends of gasoline and alcohol containing more than 21% or a percentage determined by regulations adopted by the State Board of Equalization, as specified. Existing law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, imposes an excise tax for the use of fuel, as defined, and requires that the excise tax imposed upon ethanol or methanol containing not more than 15% gasoline or diesel fuels be 12 of that rate. That law provides for refunds for certain overpayments of tax within a specified time period. This bill would instead apply that discounted rate to ethanol or methanol containing not more than 21% gasoline, blended ethanol fuel, as defined, or diesel fuels. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Existing law provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by those laws, including an exemption until July 1, 2022, or as provided, of the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, as specified; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes, as provided; and qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development, as provided. Existing law provides that the exemption does not apply to any tangible personal property purchased during any calendar year that exceeds $200,000,000 of purchases of qualified tangible personal property. This bill would increase that $200,000,000 threshold to $500,000,000 for any calendar year on and after January 1, 2016, provided that $300,000,000 is for purchases of qualified tangible personal property that is used primarily for the purpose of reshoring or insourcing, defined to mean the relocation of a whole process, a piece of a process, a function, or a discrete piece of work from currently outside the boundaries of the United States to inside the boundaries of the state, either within or outside the boundaries of a company. This bill would require the city or county where the tangible personal property will be placed in service to issue a written certification that the relocation meets the definition of reshoring or insourcing, which the purchaser shall be required to furnish to the retailer for purposes of the exemption. By imposing a new duty on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also extend the exemption until July 1, 2024, except as otherwise provided by existing law. 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 these statutory provisions. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law prohibits, subject to exceptions, specified acts of animal abuse including, among others, the malicious and intentional maiming, mutilation, torture, or wounding of a living animal. Under existing law, a violation of those provisions is punishable as a felony by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or alternatively, as a misdemeanor by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would require a person who violates the animal abuse prohibitions described above to be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 for each violation, in addition to the fines described above. The bill would require those additional fines to be paid to the local public animal control agency that has jurisdiction over the location where the violation occurred. The bill would authorize the agency to use the moneys paid as a fine to compensate a person who incurs costs for the animal's medical care, rehabilitation, or recovery, if the owner or caretaker of the animal was the person who violated the animal abuse prohibitions described above. The bill would also require, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person who violates the animal abuse prohibitions described above in a rehabilitative facility for animals to pay for and successfully complete an appropriate counseling course, as determined by the court, designed to evaluate and treat behavior or conduct disorders. The bill would define "rehabilitative facility for animals" for these purposes as a facility at which medical care or rehabilitative services are provided to animals, including, but not limited to, an animal sanctuary, animal shelter, or aquarium. By increasing the penalties for existing crimes and increasing the duties of a public animal control agency relative to the use of the moneys paid as a fine, the bill would impose 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides specified requirements in awarding certain public contracts. This bill would authorize the Governor to sign agreements required by the United States Olympic Committee as part of the bid process for the City of Los Angeles or the City and County of San Francisco to become the United States applicant city and candidate city for the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations that, among other things, the endorsing municipality, as defined, has developed a self-sufficient bid for financing the games. This bill would authorize the Governor to enter into an agreement for the state to be jointly liable, not to exceed a specified amount, with the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) , as specified, for obligations of the OCOG, and for any financial deficit relating to the games, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.