BILL NUMBER: AB 617	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend 1341.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to
health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 617, as introduced, Nazarian. Health care coverage.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful
violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the
establishment and operation of a principal office and branch offices
of the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 1341.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1341.1.  The director shall have his or her principal office in
the City of Sacramento, and may establish branch offices in the City
and County of San Francisco, in the City of Los Angeles, and in the
City of San Diego. The director shall from time to time obtain the
necessary furniture, stationery, fuel, light, and  any 
other proper  conveniences   convenience 
for the transaction of the business of the Department of Managed
Health Care.