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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 75
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 6/10/13 in Senate
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Alcohol and Drug Programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to
eliminate the Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
(DADP) and transfers its programs and functions to other
departments. Makes an appropriation of $2,004,000 from the
federal trust fund to the Department of Health Care Services
(DHCS) for mental health programs in order to align federal fund
authority with the actual federal grant amount.
ANALYSIS : DADP directs, coordinates and provides leadership
for the state's efforts to reduce or prevent alcoholism,
narcotic addiction, drug abuse and problem gambling. As part of
the 2011-12 Budget, the administrative functions of the Drug
Medi-Cal program were transferred from DADP to DHCS. Under the
2011 Realignment, community-based substance use treatment
programs, previously supported in part by the General Fund, were
transferred from DADP to counties. The 2012 Budget Act
eliminates DADP, effective July 1, 2013, and directed the
Administration to utilize a stakeholder process to develop a
transition plan for the transfer of the remaining DADP programs
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and responsibilities to other state departments.
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) provides grants to states to improve the
quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and
rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death,
disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse
and mental illness.
This bill:
1.Makes various technical statutory changes necessary to
eliminate the DADP, consistent with the transfer of substance
use disorder programs to DHCS, and the transfer of the Office
of Problem Gambling to the Department of Public Health (DPH).
2.Expresses legislative intent that substance use disorder
programs within DHCS, and the Office of Problem Gambling
within DPH, have input in policy decisions at both the
department and agency level and continue to utilize system
stakeholders for input on public policy issues.
3.Expresses legislative intent that the impacts of these
programmatic transitions are identified and evaluated.
4.Requires by April 1, 2014, and March 1 annually thereafter,
DHCS and DPH to report to the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee and the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy
committees of the Legislature, and to publicly post the report
on their Internet Web site, using baseline measurements to
assess year-over-year changes that demonstrate how and why
service delivery was improved, or otherwise changed as a
result of this transition.
5.Requires, by November 1, 2013, DHCS and DPH to consult with
legislative staff and system stakeholders to develop a
reporting format.
6.Sunsets the reporting requirement as of January 1, 2019.
7.Appropriates $2,004,000 from the federal trust fund to DHCS
for mental health programs. This is a technical adjustment to
align federal fund authority for mental health services grants
with the actual amount of the SAMHSA grant received.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
No General Fund impact.
JL:ek 6/13/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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