BILL NUMBER: SB 154	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill

                        JANUARY 31, 2013

   An act to amend Section 1501 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to community care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 154, as introduced, Berryhill. Community care facilities.
   Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act,
provides for the licensure and regulation of community care
facilities by the State Department of Social 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 1501 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1501.  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is
an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive
statewide service system of quality community care for mentally ill,
developmentally and physically disabled, and children and adults who
require care or services by a facility or organization issued a
license or special permit pursuant to this chapter.
   (b) Therefore, the Legislature declares it is the intent of the
state to develop policies and programs designed to: (1) 
insure   ensure  a level of care and services in
the community which is equal to or better than that provided by the
state hospitals; (2)  assure   ensure  that
all people who require them are provided with the appropriate range
of social rehabilitative, habilitative and treatment services,
including residential and nonresidential programs tailored to their
needs; (3) protect the legal and human rights of a person in or
receiving services from a community care facility; (4) 
insure   ensure  continuity of care between the
medical-health elements and the supportive care-rehabilitation
elements of California's health systems; (5)  insure
  ensure  that facilities providing community care
are adequate, safe and sanitary; (6)  assure  
ensure  that rehabilitative and treatment services are provided
at a reasonable cost; (7)  assure   ensure 
that state payments for community care services are based on a
flexible rate schedule varying according to type and cost of care and
services provided; (8) encourage the utilization of personnel from
state hospitals and the development of training programs to improve
the quality of staff in community care facilities; and (9) 
insure   ensure  the quality of community care
facilities by evaluating the care and services provided and
furnishing incentives to upgrade their quality.