BILL NUMBER: AB 2629	CHAPTERED  09/21/04

	CHAPTER  660
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 10, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 9, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salinas

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2004

   An act to add Section 1566.75 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to community care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2629, Salinas.  Community care facilities:  mentally ill
residents.
   Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act,
provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of
Social Services of community care facilities, as defined.
   This bill would require the Community Care Licensing Division of
the department, by January 1, 2006, to enter into memoranda of
understanding with up to 10 local mental health departments that
volunteer to participate, each of which would outline a formal
protocol to address shared responsibilities, monitoring
responsibilities, facility closures, training, and a process for
mediation of disputes between the local mental health authority and
the department's local licensing office relating to adult residential
facilities and social rehabilitation facilities.  The bill would
require the department to transmit a copy of each signed memorandum
of understanding to the Legislature, on or before January 31, 2006.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1566.75 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
immediately following Section 1566.7, to read:
   1566.75.  (a) By January 1, 2006, the department's Community Care
Licensing Division shall enter into memoranda of understanding with
up to 10 local mental health departments that volunteer to
participate.  Each memorandum of understanding shall outline a formal
protocol to address shared responsibilities, monitoring
responsibilities, facility closures, training, and a process for
mediation of disputes between the local mental health authority and
the department's local licensing office relating to adult residential
facilities and social rehabilitation facilities.
   (b) On or before January 31, 2006, the department shall transmit a
copy of each memorandum of understanding that has been signed to the
Legislature.