BILL NUMBER: AB 3006	CHAPTERED  09/30/02

	CHAPTER  1164
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 29, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 6, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Budget (Oropeza (Chair), Aroner,
Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Diaz, Dutra, Firebaugh, Horton, Keeley,
Pavley, Simitian, Steinberg, Vargas, and Wright)

                        MARCH 4, 2002

   An act to repeal Section 103 of Assembly Bill 442 of the 2001-02
Regular Session, relating to health, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3006, Committee on Budget.  Health:  Medi-Cal:  provider rate
increases.
   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by
the State Department of Health Services, under which qualified
low-income persons are provided with health care services.
   Assembly Bill 442 of the 2001-02 Regular Session, among other
things, proposes to add provisions that would require, in order to
implement changes in the level of funding for Medi-Cal services in
the Budget Act of 2002, the Director of Health Services to eliminate,
with specified exceptions, all provider rate increases that were
provided, effective August 1, 2000, for services rendered in the
Medi-Cal program.  The bill would define "provider" for purposes of
this requirement.
   This bill would repeal the above provisions, contingent on the
enactment of AB 442.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 103 of Assembly Bill 442 of the 2001-02 Regular
Session is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 1 of this act shall be operative only if Assembly
Bill 442 of the 2001-02 Regular Session is enacted on or before
January 1, 2003.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to make necessary statutory changes to implement the
Budget Act of 2002 at the earliest possible time, it is necessary
that this act take effect immediately.