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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1474
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 6/25/12 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE : 10-1, 6/25/12
AYES: Leno, Alquist, DeSaulnier, Hancock, Liu, Lowenthal,
Negrete McLeod, Simitian, Wolk, Wright
NOES: Anderson
NO VOTE RECORDED: Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, La
Malfa
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2012: Department of Alcohol and
Drug
Programs Realignment
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides the statutory changes
necessary to implement the Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs Realignment portions of the 2012 Budget Act.
ANALYSIS : This is the Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs Realignment Trailer Bill. It contains the
necessary changes to enact the Budget Act of 2012-13, as
follows:
Transfer of Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP)
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Functions
Effective, July 1, 2013, transfers the administrative and
programmatic functions of DADP to departments within the
Health and Human Services Agency. Requires that, in
consultation with stakeholders and affected departments,
the Health and Human Services Agency prepare a detailed
plan for the reorganization of DADP's functions, as
specified. The plan is to be submitted to the Legislature
as part of the 2013-14 Governor's Budget.
Alcohol and Drug Program Realignment
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement and be
consistent with the 2011 Public Safety Realignment.
Requires the DADP and the Department of Health Care
Services (DHCS) to annually report a summary of outcome
and expenditure data that allows for monitoring of
changes over time and indicates the degree to which
programs are meeting state and county-defined outcome
measures.
Drug Medi-Cal
Makes programmatic changes necessary to implement and be
consistent with the realignment of funding for the Drug
Medi-Cal program and the transfer of remaining state
responsibility for the program to the DHCS.
Requires the DHCS to provide quarterly updates to the
Legislature, stakeholders, and public on steps foreseen,
planned, and completed for the Drug Medi-Cal transfer.
Establishes Legislative support for the adoption of
standardized and simplified forms and procedures in order
to promote the drug treatment of indigent patients who
are not eligible for Medi-Cal.
Women and Children's Residential Treatment Services (WCRTS)
Declares the state's interest in the WCRTS program,
recognizes the eight current programs, and allows for the
establishment of additional programs for the purpose of
pursuing four primary goals: 1) demonstrate that alcohol
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and other drug abuse treatment services delivered in a
residential setting and coupled with primary health, mental
health, and social services for women and children, can
improve overall treatment outcomes for women, children, and
the family unit as a whole; 2) demonstrate the
effectiveness of six-month or 12-month stays in a
comprehensive residential treatment program; 3) develop
models of effective comprehensive services delivery for
women and their children that can be replicated in similar
communities; and 4) provide services to promote safe and
healthy pregnancies and perinatal outcomes.
Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SAPT)
- County Contracts
Revises various sections to eliminate a county plan
requirement and instead requires counties to, within 60
days after notice of the final allocation of SAPT funds,
contract for federal funding from the state to provide
alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment, and
recovery services.
Establishes that, when a county decides not to enter into
a contract to provide alcohol and drug abuse services or
programs, or both, the department shall determine the
need for the services or programs and provide the
services or programs directly through contract.
Provides that the department may implement, interpret, or
make amendments to various provisions by means of an
all-county letter, plan letters, plan or provide
bulletins, or similar instructions from the department
until regulations are adopted. In addition, provides for
adoption of emergency regulations by July 1, 2014, and
authorizes the readoption of these emergency regulations,
as specified.
Removes population cap for two or more counties to
jointly establish county alcohol and other drug programs
and removes state authorization for county to county
contracts for service.
Establishes that funds in each county's Behavioral Health
Subaccount of the Support Services Account of the Local
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Revenue Fund 2011 shall be considered state funds for the
purposes of receipt of the federal block grant.
Allows the director of DADP to reduce federal funding, on
a dollar-for-dollar basis, to a county that has reduced
or anticipates reducing expenditures in a way that would
result in a decrease in the federal SAPT funds, as
specified.
Drug Courts
Makes amendments necessary to implement the realignment of
drug court funding pursuant to 2011 Public Safety
Realignment.
Children and Family Services - Federal Disallowance Penalty
Establishes that if a federal disallowance or other
financial penalty is imposed on the state based on the
results of the federal Children and Family Services Review,
the Department of Social Services, in consultation with the
California State Association of Counties, shall develop an
apportionment of the total counties' share of the penalty
to the individual counties whose performance contributed to
the failure to meet the federal outcome target, as
specified.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
CTW:n 6/26/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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