BILL NUMBER: SB 158 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 28, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 21, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Senator Correa
(Coauthor: Senator Beall)
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
An act to add and repeal Section 4639.8 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to autism services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 158, as amended, Correa. Autism services: demonstration
program.
The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act
authorizes requires the State Department of
Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide
services and support to individuals with developmental disabilities,
including autism.
This bill would establish authorize
, until January 1, 2019, the establishment of a
demonstration program that would be known as the Regional Center
Excellence in Community Autism Partnerships (RE CAP) program to
implement measures in underserved communities to promote
awareness and reduce the stigma associated with autism or pervasive
developmental spectrum disorders, improve the early screening,
diagnosis, and assessment of those disorders, and increase access to
evidence-based interventions and treatments, as specified
provide improved services, supports, interventions, and other
resources to assist individuals with autism spectrum disorders, and
their families, who are regional center consumers and who reside in
underserved communities, as specified . The bill would
require authorize the department to contract
with a University of California or California State University campus
to serve as the a coordinating center
for to develop the program. The bill
would also require the department to define the
responsibilities of the coordinating center and to establish criteria
for participation in, and guidelines for the implementation of, the
program. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2018, the
center, or its designee, to provide information to the appropriate
committees of the Legislature, the department, the Governor's office,
and participating regional centers information regarding the
efficacy and outcomes of the RE CAP program. authorize
the coordinating center to establish guidelines by which regional
centers participating in the program would implement measures in
underserved communities, in a linguistically and culturally competent
manner, to promote awareness and reduce the stigma associated with
autism, improve the early screening, diagnosis, and assessment of
autism, and increase access to evidence-based interventions and
treatments for autism, as specified.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4639.8 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
4639.8. (a) A demonstration program , that shall
be known as the Regional Center Excellence in Community Autism
Partnerships (RE CAP), may be established pursuant to this section.
If RE CAP is established, it shall provide improved services,
supports, interventions, and other resources to assist individuals
with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and their families, who are
regional center consumers and who reside in underserved
communities is hereby established pursuant to this section.
communities.
(b) The demonstration program shall be known as the Regional
Center Excellence in Community Autism Partnerships (RE CAP) program.
(c)
(b) The department shall may
contract with a University of California or California State
University campus that shall to serve
as a coordinating center to implement develop
the RE CAP program. In collaboration with the
participating regional centers, the coordinating center shall
identify and coordinate the activities and resources of other
participating entities and organizations.
(d) The department shall do all of the following:
(1) Define the responsibilities of the coordinating center.
(2) Establish appropriate criteria and parameters by which
regional centers may participate in the RE CAP program.
(3) Establish criteria and parameters by which specific geographic
areas in catchment areas of participating regional centers shall be
designated as underserved communities.
(4) Establish
(c) The coordinating center may
establish guidelines, best practices, and technical assistance
by which regional centers participating in the RE CAP program shall
implement measures in underserved communities to accomplish any of
the following goals and objectives in a linguistically and
culturally competent manner :
(A) Promote awareness and reduce the stigma associated with ASD.
(B) Improve the early screening for ASD.
(C) Improve the diagnosis and assessment of ASD.
(D) Increase access to evidence-based interventions and treatments
for ASD.
(5) Establish indicators and outcome measures that may be utilized
to evaluate the efficacy of the RE CAP program.
(e)
(d) Participation of the regional centers shall be on a
voluntary basis or as deemed necessary by the department
.
(f) (1)
(e) Funding for the RE CAP program shall be
from existing regional center resources in combination with
additional resources provided by foundations, federal funding, and
other sources and as allocated by the coordinating center for each of
the RE CAP programs. No additional state funds shall be allocated
to the coordinating center or the regional centers for
these purposes.
(2) The coordinating center shall implement the demonstration
project described in this section only to the extent that adequate
funding and resources are made available for the project.
(g) On or before January 1, 2018, the coordinating center, or its
designee, shall provide information to the appropriate committees of
the Legislature, the department, the Governor's office, and
participating regional centers regarding the efficacy and outcomes of
the RE CAP program.
(h)
(f) This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1, 2019, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or
extends that date.