(1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Mental Health and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of programs for the delivery of mental health services, including, but not limited to, establishing the department as the agency responsible for administering a program of services for persons with acquired traumatic brain injury, as defined. This program provides for a demonstration project for postacute care for adults 18 years of age and older with an acquired traumatic brain injury, including the funding of demonstration project sites, as specified. Existing law establishes the Department of Rehabilitation and sets forth its powers and duties relating to rehabilitation services, including, but not limited to, duties related to the delivery of services for persons with acquired traumatic brain injury. This bill would remove the State Department of Mental Health as the agency responsible for administering the program of services for persons with acquired traumatic brain injury and would, instead, establish the Department of Rehabilitation as the responsible agency and would extend the existing July 1, 2012, repeal date for these provisions until July 1, 2019. This bill would delete references to the program as a demonstration project. It would, instead, dependent upon securing sources of funding for the provision of services, require the Department of Rehabilitation to fund an array of services for adults 18 years of age and older with acquired traumatic brain injury and would require the department to determine the requirements for service delivery, uniform data collection, and other aspects of program administration that service providers participating in the program must meet and to monitor and evaluate the performance of those service providers, as specified. The bill would require service providers to furnish data to the department and would require service providers wishing to continue to participate in the program after July 1, 2013, to comply with additional eligibility requirements specified by the department. Existing law establishes the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund in the State Treasury, with this fund being available for purposes of the program, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The fund receives moneys from specified fines and penalties. This bill would allow the department to use the funds in the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund to make grants to service providers for the provision of services, as specified. It would also modify requirements relating to the securing of matching funds. (2) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant to which medical benefits are provided to public assistance recipients and certain other low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is partially governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law requires the department, by March 15, 2009, to submit to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a home- and community-based services waiver application or an amendment of the state plan for home- and community-based services, to serve at least 100 adults with acquired traumatic brain injuries who otherwise would require care in a Medi-Cal funded nursing facility or an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities. This bill would, instead, require this waiver to be submitted by March, 1, 2011.
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Existing law requires all real property within the DeLaveaga Park Property owned by the state, other than that portion leased to the City of Santa Cruz, to be used for a National Guard camp of instruction and, if that use is determined by the Adjutant General to be no longer necessary for that purpose, requires the Department of General Services to reconvey the real property to the city, to be used in perpetuity for public recreational purposes. The department is also directed to convey to the city its fee interest in that portion of the DeLaveaga Park Property leased to the city to be used as a municipally owned public golf course, if the city simultaneously conveys in fee to the state the portion of the property that is leased to the state. This bill would describe the portion of real property within the DeLaveaga Park Property owned by the state and comprised of approximately 40 acres to be referred to as "the armory site," and make various conforming changes. The bill would delete the provisions requiring the Department of General Services to reconvey the real property to the city if the Adjutant General determines the property to be no longer necessary for the purpose of a camp of instruction for the National Guard, and would instead authorize the department, in that instance, to dispose of the armory site, subject to specified conditions. The bill would also delete the provisions requiring the city to simultaneously convey in fee to the state the portion of the DeLaveaga Park Property that is leased to the state, and instead require the city to simultaneously quitclaim any interest it has in the armory site, subject to terms and conditions that the department deems is in the best interest of the state. The bill would authorize, rather than direct, the department to convey its fee interest to the City of Santa Cruz, but would require consultation with the Adjutant General.
(1) The Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act authorizes the Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the State Coastal Conservancy, to award grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects designed to restore and protect the water quality and environment of coastal waters, estuaries, bays, and near shore waters, including, among other things, a project to make improvements to, or upgrades or conversions of, existing sewer collection systems and septic systems for the restoration and protection of coastal water quality. This bill would also authorize grants for projects designed to implement or promote low-impact development for new or existing developments that will contribute to the improvement of water quality or reduce stormwater runoff and for projects designed to implement specified stormwater resource plans. (2) Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a regional water management group, as defined, to adopt an integrated regional water management plan that addresses specified matters. This bill would authorize a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. The bill would authorize a regional water management group to coordinate its planning activities to address or incorporate into its plan any stormwater resource planning that is undertaken pursuant to the bill's provisions.
The California Ocean Protection Act establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government and provides that the council consists of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, the Chair of the State Lands Commission, and 2 public members appointed by the Governor. The act requires the council, among other things, to coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to the protection and conservation of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems and to establish policies to coordinate the collection and sharing of scientific data related to coast and ocean resources between agencies. The act also creates the California Ocean Protection Council Trust Fund in the State Treasury and authorizes moneys deposited in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the council for projects and activities authorized by the council consistent with the purposes of the act. This bill would require the council to develop and implement a specified voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program. The program would, among other things, consist of a protocol to guide entities on how to be independently certified to internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood, as defined, a marketing assistance program, and a competitive grant and loan program. It would prohibit seafood produced through aquaculture or fish farming from being certified as sustainable under these provisions until nationally or internationally accepted sustainability standards have been developed and implemented. The bill also would provide that moneys in the trust fund may be expended for grants or loans to a private entity for projects or activities that further public purposes consistent with the voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program.
This measure would recognize the pioneering work of promotores and community health workers in delivering vital and cost-effective health care services in communities throughout California and declare October 2009 as California Promotores Month.
This measure would designate the month of October 2009 as Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Month to honor the mission and purposes of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services.
This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.
This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2009, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would recognize the importance of California Native American Day, celebrated this year on September 25, 2009, and the concurrent California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference to the enhancement of awareness of California Indian culture.
This measure would designate the month of October 2009, and every October thereafter, as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would encourage public schools to highlight and include Italian American achievements and contributions to the culture of California and to take steps to promote the inclusion of the role and contributions of Italian Americans to the culture and history of California and the United States in elementary and secondary social science textbooks during the revision process for those textbooks.