BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 145 Page 1 Date of Hearing: March 25, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Jimmy Gomez, Chair AB 145 (Gomez) - As Introduced January 13, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Labor |Vote:|7-0 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Urgency: Yes State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No SUMMARY: This bill corrects a drafting error in legislation enacted last year relative to a report of large employers that employ beneficiaries of Medi-Cal. AB 145 Page 2 FISCAL EFFECT: No state fiscal impact as the bill makes conforming changes to existing law. COMMENTS: This bill fixes a technical error that occurred in the final draft of AB 1792 (Gomez), Chapter 889, Statutes of 2014. AB 1792 required the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to annually inform the Employment Development Department (EDD) of the names and social security numbers of all recipients of the Medi-Cal program, and required DHCS to determine the average per-individual cost of state and federally funded benefits provided by the Medi-Cal program and inform EDD of these costs. The bill defined an employer as an individual or organization that employs 100 or more beneficiaries of the Medi-Cal program, however, for purposes of the report, the bill defined employer as an entity that employs 50 or more beneficiaries. This bill changes the number of employees from 50 to 100 to make the language consistent. Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 AB 145 Page 3