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          Date of Hearing:   March 25, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS


                                 Jimmy Gomez, Chair


          AB  
          145 (Gomez) - As Introduced January 13, 2015


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          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.









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          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










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