BILL NUMBER: AB 1309 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 2, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 27, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 4, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 31, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Miller
( Principal coauthors:
Assembly Members Cook, Donnelly,
Hagman, Jeffries, Knight, Morrell,
and Nestande )
( Principal coauthors:
Senators Dutton and Emmerson )
( Coauthor: Assembly
Member Beth Gaines )
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
An act to add and repeal Section 969.7 of the Streets and
Highways Code, relating to public roads relating to
the University of California, making an appropria tion
therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1309, as amended, Miller. Public roads: fire
suppression. University of California: UC Riverside
Medical School.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution establish the
University of California as a public trust under the administration
of the Regents of the University of California. The University of
California (UC) system includes 10 campuses, which are respectively
located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside,
San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
This bill would express findings and declarations of the
Legislature relating to, among other things, the role of the UC
Riverside Medical School in supporting California's health care
infrastructure. The bill would, from any amount paid to the State of
California as a result of an investigation into possible overpayments
of state funds to the Senior Care Action Network (SCAN) Health Plan
and available for expenditure for the purposes of the bill, as the
highest priority for the use of these funds, transfer $15,000,000 to
the Regents of the University of California for allocation to the
School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside,
thereby making an appropriation.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors, after
adopting a resolution, as specified, determining that the general
county interest demands the improvement or repair of a privately
owned road, to improve or repair that road and to pay for those
improvements or repairs in a like manner as improvements or repairs
of county highways.
This bill, until January 1, 2017, would grant a board of
supervisors the same authority with respect to improvement and repair
of a public road that is not a county highway or part of the county
maintained system, if necessary for purposes of fire suppression.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no yes . Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:
(a) Several regions of Riverside County are federally designated
Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs). The calculation of MUAs involves
four variables: ratio of primary medical care physicians per 1,000
population, infant mortality rate, percentage of the population with
incomes below the poverty level, and percentage of the population 65
years of age or over.
(b) The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, if
fully implemented in 2014, will mean millions of previously uninsured
Californians will be seeking health services, including physician
care.
(c) The aging of baby boomers will place further demands on
physicians.
(d) As a result of this additional demand for physician services,
the projected statewide physician shortfall is 17,000 by 2015.
(e) In July 2008, the Regents of the University of California
approved the establishment of the School of Medicine at the
University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside Medical School).
The UC Riverside Medical School is scheduled to enroll its first
incoming class in August 2013.
(f) The medical schools of the University of California, including
the UC Riverside Medical School, are playing an important role in
addressing current and future physician shortages.
(g) The Senior Care Action Network (SCAN) Health Plan serves over
115,000 Medicare beneficiaries in California, including nearly 20,000
that reside in Riverside County.
(h) California's share of the impending settlement of a U.S.
Department of Justice investigation into SCAN Health Plan's payment
rates is expected to exceed $100 million.
(i) Given the critical role the UC Riverside Medical School will
play in supporting California's health care infrastructure, and the
direct impact that the SCAN Health Plan has had on thousands of
Riverside County seniors, it is appropriate that the UC Riverside
Medical School receive a portion of the SCAN settlement so it can
continue its vital mission of training future physicians.
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other law, from any
amount paid to the State of California as a result of an
investigation into possible overpayments of state funds to the Senior
Care Action Network (SCAN) Health Plan and available for expenditure
for the purposes of this act, as the highest priority for the use of
these funds, fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be
transferred to the Regents of the University of California for
allocation, without regard to fiscal year, to the School of Medicine
at the University of California, Riverside.
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 provide crucial funding to launch the vital health
care mission of the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.
SECTION 1. Section 969.7 is added to the
Streets and Highways Code, to read:
969.7. (a) A board of supervisors may, after it has determined
by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of its membership that
the general county interest demands the improvement or repair of a
public road that is not a county highway and is not in the county
maintained system, improve or repair the road if the improvements or
repairs are necessary for the purpose of fire suppression. Those
improvements or repairs shall be made and paid for in the same manner
as improvements or repairs of county highways. Proceedings under
this section shall not cause the road to become a county highway.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.