BILL NUMBER: AB 390	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2013

   An act to amend Section 14000 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to health care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 390, as introduced, Logue. Health care.
    Existing law requires the State Department of Health Services,
whenever possible and feasible, to give due consideration to the
appropriate organization and the ready accessibility and availability
of the facilities and resources for health care to eligible persons,
and to new and innovative approaches to the delivery of health care
services.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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.  Section 14000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14000.  The purpose of this chapter is to afford to qualifying
individuals health care and related remedial or preventive services,
including related social services which are necessary for those
receiving health care under this chapter.
   The intent of the Legislature is to provide, to the extent
practicable, through the provisions of this chapter, for health care
for those aged and other  persons   individuals
 , including family  persons   members
 who lack sufficient annual income to meet the costs of health
care, and whose other assets are so limited that their application
toward the costs of such care would jeopardize the  person
  individual's  or family's future minimum
self-maintenance and security. It is intended that whenever possible
and feasible:
   (a) The means employed shall allow, to the extent practicable,
 an  eligible  persons   individual
 to secure health care in the same manner employed by the public
generally, and without discrimination or segregation based purely on
 their   his or her  economic disability.
The means employed shall include an emphasis on efforts to arrange
and encourage access to health care through enrollment in organized,
managed care plans of the type available to the general public.
   (b) The benefits available under this chapter shall not duplicate
those provided under other federal or state laws or under other
contractual or legal entitlements of the  person 
 individual  or  persons   individuals
 receiving them.
   (c) In the administration of this chapter and in establishing the
means to be used to provide access to health care to  persons
  individuals  eligible under this chapter, the
department shall emphasize and take advantage of both the efficient
organization and ready accessibility and availability of health care
facilities and resources through enrollment in managed health care
plans and new and innovative fee-for-service managed health care plan
approaches to the delivery of health care services.