BILL NUMBER: AB 2327	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 14131 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2327, as introduced, Achadjian. Medi-Cal: benefits.
   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is
administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under
which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services.
The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal
Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law provides for a
department-administered uniform schedule of health care benefits and
provides that health care services shall be limited, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
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 14131 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14131.  The Medi-Cal Benefits Program  comprises 
 is comprised of  a department-administered uniform
schedule of health care benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision
of this chapter, "health care services" shall be limited to the
benefits set forth in this article and in Section 14021.