AB 1246, as introduced, Nestande. Health and human services: direct service contracts.
Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature, with respect to direct service contracts of the departments within the California Health and Human Services Agency, that the contract approval process and payment for services rendered occur within specified timeframes.
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 38000 of the Health and Safety Code is
2amended to read:
The Legislature states its intent with respect to direct
4service contracts of the departments within thebegin insert Californiaend insert Health
5andbegin delete Welfareend deletebegin insert Human Servicesend insert Agency as follows:
P2 1(a) begin deleteContract end deletebegin insertThe contract end insertapproval process should take no longer
2than 30 days from the time the
administrative agency generating
3the contract has approved its provisions.
4(b) Payment for services rendered shall take no longer than 30
5days after an invoice has been approved by the responsible
6department.
7(c) If contract approval or payment or both are delayed, the state
8shall notify community based agencies within 15 days with
9instructions to either defer or interrupt services to be contracted.
10If the state requests an agency to continue providing services,
11conditions shall be mutually agreed upon in advance for
12amortization of particular additional costs to the agency involved.
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