BILL NUMBER: AB 987	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 1374.3 of the Health and Safety
Code    add Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 128300)
of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code
 , relating to health  care service plans 
 professions  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 987, as amended, Jones.  Health care service plans.
  Personal and Home Care Aide training program. 

   Existing law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development to prepare a Health Manpower Plan for California.
Existing law also provides various programs to develop the health
care workforce.  
   This bill would require the Secretary of State and Consumer
Services to submit an application on behalf of the state to the
federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a 3-year
grant to establish a Personal and Home Care Aide training program, as
specified, that would include opportunities for honorably discharged
veterans in California.  
   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 the act a crime. Existing law requires a health care
service plan to meet specified requirements.  
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Article 2.5 (commencing with Section
128300) is added to Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  

      Article 2.5.  Personal and Home Care Aide Training Program


   128300.  (a) The Secretary of State and Consumer Services shall
submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal
Department of Health and Human Services to receive a three-year grant
to establish a Personal and Home Care Aide training program, as
provided in Sections 4002 and 5507(b) of the federal Affordable Care
Act.
   (b) The secretary shall write the application so that the program
includes opportunities for honorably discharged veterans in
California to be hired in the training program.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1374.3 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   1374.3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or
health care service plan contract, every health care service plan
shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 7 (commencing with
Section 3750) of Part 1 of Division 9 of the Family Code and Section
14124.94 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.