BILL NUMBER: AB 1881	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 130 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1881, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Publicly funded health care
services.
   Existing law imposes various functions and duties on the State
Department of Health Care Services with respect to the administration
and oversight of health programs and facilities, including publicly
funded 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 130 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
   130.  (a) In order to carry out the intention of the 
People   people  of California that, excepting
emergency medical care as required by federal law, only citizens of
the United States and aliens lawfully admitted to the United States
may receive the benefits of  publicly-funded  
publicly funded  health care, and to ensure that all persons
employed in the providing of those services shall diligently protect
public funds from misuse, the provisions of this section are adopted.

   (b) A person shall not receive any health care services from a
 publicly-funded   publicly funded  health
care facility, to which he or she is otherwise entitled  , 
until the legal status of that person has been verified as one of the
following:
   (1) A citizen of the United States.
   (2) An alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident.
   (3) An alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time.
   (c) If  any publicly-funded   a publicly
funded  health care facility in this state from  whom
  which  a person seeks health care services, other
than emergency medical care as required by federal law, determines
or reasonably suspects, based upon the information provided to it,
that the person is an alien in the United States in violation of
federal law, the following procedures shall be followed by the
facility:
   (1) The facility shall not provide the person with services.
   (2) The facility shall, in writing, notify the person of his or
her apparent illegal immigration  status, 
status  and that the person must either obtain legal status or
leave the United States.
   (3) The facility shall  also  notify the 
State  Director of Health  Care  Services, the
Attorney General of California, and the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status, and shall
provide any additional information that may be requested by any other
public entity.
   (d) For purposes of this section  "publicly-funded health
care facility"   "publicly funded health care facility"
 shall be defined as specified in Sections 1200 and 1250
 of this code  as of January 1, 1993.