The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for workforce investment activities, including activities in which states may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment, including work incentive and employment training outreach programs. Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to deliver comprehensive workforce services to jobseekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop career centers to, among other things, make job outreach, intake, job search and placement assistance, and other related services available in one location. Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible unemployed persons during the period that the person is unemployed, and requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment compensation program. This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2010, to provide in-person unemployment benefit assistance in at least one comprehensive state one-stop career center in each workforce area, as prescribed. The bill would require that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career centers be funded with existing moneys available to the department for the administration of the unemployment compensation program.
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This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
Existing law, the Telemedicine Development Act of 1996, regulates the practice of telemedicine, defined as the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and education using interactive audio, video, or data communications, by a health care practitioner, as defined. Existing law establishes that it is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operate in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible when purchasing health care services for inmates. This bill would authorize the department to use "store and forward" telemedicine technology in state prisons, which would involve the transmission of a prisoner's medical information to be reviewed at a later time by a physician at a distant site. The bill would require that a patient receiving telemedicine by "store and forward" be notified of the right to interactive communication with the distant physician. This bill would authorize the department, where feasible, to utilize "store and forward" telemedicine for teleradiology, teleophthalmology, teledermatology, and telepathology, as defined. The bill would authorize the department to expand the use of "store and forward" telemedicine.
Existing law provides for the granting of probation or parole to specified offenders under specified circumstances. This bill would require, as conditions of probation or parole, that a person required to register as a sex offender, who has either been determined to have a high risk of offending pursuant to the State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders, or whose victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense, be prohibited from using the Internet to access pornographic material, to access social networking sites, to communicate with other individuals or groups for the purpose of promoting sexual relations with persons under 18 years of age, or to communicate with persons under 18 years of age, except as provided. 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.
Existing law requires the State Department of Mental Health to implement managed mental health care for Medi-Cal beneficiaries through fee-for-service or capitated rate contracts with mental health plans, including individual counties, counties acting jointly, any qualified individual or organization, or a nongovernmental entity. Under existing law, this may include the provision of specialty mental health services to children in foster care. Existing law requires the State Department of Mental Health to create a standardized contract, service authorization procedure, and set of documentation standards and forms, and to use these items to facilitate the receipt of medically necessary specialty mental health services by a foster child who is placed outside of his or her county of original jurisdiction, as specified. In addition, existing law requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to coordinate the efforts of the State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Social Services for the performance of designated duties with respect to implementing these provisions, including establishing informational materials for foster care providers and county child welfare agencies, as specified. This bill would require that when a child is placed in foster care outside of the county of original jurisdiction, the county in which the child is placed shall be responsible for ensuring that the child receives medically necessary specialty mental health services, and any adjustments in the administration of the Medi-Cal program shall be made, to ensure that the funding applicable to the mental health services for that child is received by the new county of residence. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on county child welfare departments in connection with the provision of medically necessary specialty mental health services to foster children, this 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, 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.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Existing law creates the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund, for the purposes of paying Medi‑Cal providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected with HIV, and providers of services for the developmentally disabled, on and after July 1 and before September 1, of the fiscal year for which a budget has not yet been enacted or there is a deficiency in the Medi‑Cal budget in any fiscal year, and transfers or appropriates, for each fiscal year in which these payments are necessary, up to $1,000,000,000 from the General Fund, in the form of loans, and $1,000,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. This bill would increase, to an amount not to exceed $2,500,000,000, the annual appropriation from the General Fund and from the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. By increasing the amount transferred into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
This bill would urge the President of the United States and the Congress to employ necessary measures to ensure that no terrorist or suspected terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is permitted to enter California in custody or otherwise.
This measure would declare February 19, 2010, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act) , provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans, as defined, by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance and requires insurers to obtain a certificate of authority from the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law provides an exemption from those licensure and certification requirements for plans operated by a public entity or joint labor management trust if, among other requirements, the plan maintains a fiscally sound operation and makes adequate provision against the risk of insolvency, as evidenced by financial statements submitted to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, as specified. This bill would exempt a plan operated by a joint venture formed by 2 or more nonprofit charitable organizations, as defined, from the licensure and certification requirements if the plan satisfies certain criteria, including maintaining a fiscally sound operation and making adequate provision against the risk of insolvency, as evidenced by financial statements submitted to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, as specified, and submitting a declaration under penalty of perjury stating the plan's compliance with those criteria. The bill would also authorize a joint venture formed between 2 or more nonprofit charitable organizations to contract with a health care service plan or health insurer for the purpose of providing health care coverage to the employees and retirees, and dependents thereof, of the participating nonprofit charitable organizations. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which would make supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and state and local fiscal stabilization.