AB 860, as introduced, Perea. Medical school scholarships.
Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and imposes certain requirements on health care service plans. Existing law imposes various fines and administrative penalties for certain violations of these provisions that are deposited in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund. Existing law requires the first $1,000,000 in the fund to be transferred each year to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians for the purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Existing law requires all remaining funds to be transferred each year to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund for purposes of the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program.
Existing law establishes within the Health Professions Education Foundation the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program (STMSSP), managed by the foundation and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to promote the education of medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy, as specified. Existing law provides up to $105,000 per recipient in scholarships to selected participants who agree in writing prior to completing an accredited medical or osteopathic school based in the United States to serve in an eligible setting. Existing law establishes the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Account within the Health Professions Education Fund, which consists of private moneys donated to the STMSSP.
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2014, require that no less than $1,000,000 be transferred each year from the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund to the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Account, for purposes of the STMSSP, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require that any amount remaining over the amounts transferred to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians and the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Account be transferred each year to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund for purposes of the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1341.45 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
4Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund.
5(b) The fines and administrative penalties collected pursuant to
6this chapter, on and afterbegin delete the operative date of this sectionend delete
7begin insert September 30, 2008end insert, shall be deposited into the Managed Care
8Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund.
9(c) The fines and administrative penalties deposited into the
10Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund shall be
11transferred by
the department, beginning September 1, 2009, and
12annually thereafter, as follows:
13(1) The first one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred
14to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians within the
15Health Professions Education Fund and shall, upon appropriation
16by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of the Steven M.
17Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, as specified
18in Article 5 (commencing with Section 128550) or Chapter 5 of
19Part 3 of Division 107 and, notwithstanding Section 128555, shall
P3 1not be used to provide funding for the Physician Volunteer
2Program.
3(2) Beginning January 1, 2014, no less than one million dollars
4($1,000,000) shall be transferred to the Steven M. Thompson
5Medical School Scholarship Account within the Health Professions
6Education Fund, created
pursuant to Section 128580, and shall,
7upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used by the Office of
8Statewide Health Planning and Development for the Steven M.
9Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program for the purposes
10specified in Article 6 (commencing with Section 128560) of Chapter
115 of Part 3 of Division 107.
12(2)
end delete
13begin insert(3)end insert Any amount over thebegin delete first one million dollars ($1,000,000)end delete
14begin insert amounts specified in paragraphs (1) and (2)end insert, including accrued
15interest, in
the fund shall be transferred to the Major Risk Medical
16Insurance Fund created pursuant to Section 12739 of the Insurance
17Code and shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for
18the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program for the purposes
19specified in Section 12739.1 of the Insurance Code.
20(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1356 and Section
211356.1, the fines and administrative penalties authorized pursuant
22to this chapter shall not be used to reduce the assessments imposed
23on health care service plans pursuant to Section 1356.
O
99