BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SB 101
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Date of Hearing: August 29, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET
Nancy Skinner, Chair
SB 101 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) - As Amended: August 27,
2013
SENATE VOTE : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Health-related appropriations and technical corrections
SUMMARY : This bill contains technical corrections to health-related
budget trailer bills adopted as part of the overall budget package in
June of 2013. This bill also appropriates private foundation funding,
and corresponding federal matching funds, that the state has received
from The California Endowment for purposes related to compensating
Medi-Cal application assisters and providing counties with grants to
conduct outreach to populations eligible for Medi-Cal. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), until July
1, 2017, to liquidate the prior years' encumbrances previously
obligated by the former Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
(DADP).
2)Requires the State Controller to transfer specified Budget Act
appropriations from the former DADP to DHCS in order to liquidate
prior years' encumbrances.
3)Authorizes the Department of Public Health (DPH), until July 1,
2017, to liquidate the prior years' encumbrances previously
obligated by the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling (within
the former DADP).
4)Requires the State Controller to transfer specified Budget Act
appropriations from the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling
to DPH in order to liquidate prior years' encumbrances.
5)Clarifies procedures regarding the use of emergency regulations by
the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) in the
implementation of the Investment in Mental Health Wellness Act of
2013. Specifically, requires any emergency regulations to be
adopted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act and to
be deemed to be an emergency and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, or general
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welfare.
6)Creates the Healthcare Outreach and Medi-Cal Enrollment Account in
the Special Deposit Fund within the State Treasury, to collect and
allocate non-General Fund public or private grant funds, to be
appropriated by the Legislature, for outreach to and enrollment of
targeted Medi-Cal populations and to compensate application
assisters, consistent with statute adopted through SB 82 (Budget Act
of 2013 budget trailer bill, Chapter 23, Statutes of 2013).
7)Appropriates to DHCS $28 million ($14 million from the Healthcare
Outreach and Medi-Cal Enrollment Account; $14 million Federal funds)
for compensation to Medi-Cal application assisters.
8)Appropriates to DHCS $25 million ($12.5 million from the Healthcare
Outreach and Medi-Cal Enrollment Account; $12.5 million Federal
funds) to provide for outreach and enrollment grants to eligible
entities (as specified in Chapter 23 of 2013).
9)Authorizes DHCS to expend up to $500,000 annually in 2013-14,
2014-15, and 2015-16 to implement sections 70 and 71 of Chapter 23,
Statutes of 2013, which requires DHCS to accept funding from The
California Endowment for the purpose of compensating Medi-Cal
application assisters and making outreach and enrollment grants.
10)Sunsets this section of law, that creates the Healthcare Outreach
and Medi-Cal Enrollment Account, appropriates funds to DHCS from
this account, and contains related provisions, on June 30, 2018.
11)Establishes that this bill is a bill related to the Budget Bill and
that it shall take effect immediately.
EXISTING LAW
1)Transfers the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities,
and jurisdiction of the former DADP to DHCS.
2)Transfers the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities,
and jurisdiction of the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling
to DPH.
3)Requires, within the Investment in Mental Health Wellness Act of
2013, that funds appropriated by the Legislature to the CHFFA be
made available to selected counties to increase capacity for client
assistance and services in crisis intervention, crisis
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stabilization, crisis residential treatment, rehabilitative mental
health services, and mobile crisis support teams.
4)Authorizes CHFFA to adopt emergency regulations regarding the
implementation of the Mental Health Wellness Act grants for
counties.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriates $53 million ($26.5 million in private
foundation funding and $26.5 million in federal funds).
COMMENTS : This bill is necessary in order to make technical
corrections to budget trailer bills adopted in June 2013. It is also
necessary in order to appropriate the funds being given to the state
by The California Endowment, to create an account to receive those
funds, and to specify a cap on the amount of the funds available for
administration of this program.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file.
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Andrea Margolis / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099