BILL NUMBER: AB 75	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        DECEMBER 4, 2006

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 75, as introduced, Blakeslee. Healthy Choices Plan.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and for the regulation
of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law also
establishes the Healthy Families Program, administered by the
Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, to arrange for health care
coverage for minors meeting specified eligibility criteria.
   This bill would express the Legislature's intent to create the
Healthy Choices Plan to provide health care coverage for those
Californians without coverage.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact the
Healthy Choices Plan to provide health care coverage for those
Californians without coverage.