BILL NUMBER:  AB 564
  VETOED	DATE: 09/23/2010




To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 564 without my signature.
This bill is in reaction to a newspaper article on the excessive
executive compensation for one Los Angeles-based substance abuse
treatment center.  Given all the recent attention at a local level
regarding excessive compensation and abuse of public funds, I can
understand why the author felt the need to further highlight abuse in
the other programs receiving public funds.
However, the bill fails to address the problem and inadvertently
applies federal funding requirements to for-profit entities such as
Kaiser Permanente and other health insurers.  It also sets up a new
county mandate that is unfunded.  If the author wants to pursue
legislation in the next year, I would suggest that technical errors
such as this be addressed in order to effectively address the
problem.
Sincerely,

Arnold Schwarzenegger