BILL NUMBER: SB 800	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 24, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 14005.275 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to health  , and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 800, as amended, Lara. California Health Benefit Exchange:
outreach services.
   Existing law creates various programs to provide health care
services to persons who have limited incomes and meet various
eligibility requirements. These programs include the Healthy Families
Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board,
and the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of
Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the transition of
specified enrollees of the Healthy Families Program to the Medi-Cal
program, to the extent that those individuals are otherwise eligible.

   Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange
(Exchange), and requires the board governing the Exchange to
facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans through the
Exchange by qualified individuals and small employers by January 1,
2014. Existing law also requires the board to undertake activities
necessary to market and publicize the availability of health care
coverage and federal subsidies through the Exchange and to undertake
outreach and enrollment activities.
   This bill would require the State Department of Health Care
Services to provide the Exchange with specified contact information
of individuals who are not enrolled in Medi-Cal but who are the
parents or caretakers of children enrolled in the Healthy Families
Program or the Medi-Cal program due to a transition from the Healthy
Families Program, as specified, for purposes of assisting the
Exchange to conduct outreach to individuals potentially eligible for
a state health subsidy program, as defined. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14005.275 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, immediately following Section 14005.27, to read:
   14005.275.   In order to assist the California Health Benefit
Exchange, established pursuant to Title 22 (commencing with Section
100500) of the Government Code, to conduct outreach to individuals
potentially eligible for a state health subsidy program, as defined
in Section 15926, the department shall provide the California Health
Benefit Exchange, or its designee, with the names, addresses, email
addresses, telephone numbers, or other contact information, and
written and spoken languages of individuals who are not enrolled in
Medi-Cal but are the parents or caretakers of children enrolled in
the Healthy Families Program or the Medi-Cal program pursuant to
Section 14005.27.
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   To ensure that individuals who are eligible for state health
subsidy programs receive information about those programs before the
California Health Benefit Exchange will begin making health care
coverage available in January 2014, it is necessary that this bill
take effect immediately.