BILL NUMBER: AB 294	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Lackey and Steinorth

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2015

   An act to add Part 0.5 (commencing with Section 135) to Division 1
of the Health and Safety Code, and to add Division 3.5 (commencing
with Section 3500) to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
health and human services.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 294, as introduced, Lackey. Health and human services: state
plans: federal waivers: public notice.
   Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services
Agency, and includes within that agency, the State Department of
Social Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department
of Health Care Services, among other departments.
   This bill would require a department within the agency that has
submitted an operational state plan to a federal agency, or that has
applied and has been approved for a waiver from a federal law or
regulation, to make the plan or approved waiver application available
to the public by publishing that information on the first page of
the department's Internet Web site that relates to the same subject
matter as the plan or approved waiver application.
   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.  Part 0.5 (commencing with Section 135) is added to
Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      PART 0.5.  California Health and Human Services Agency
Departments: Public Notice Requirements


   135.  If a department within the California Health and Human
Services Agency has submitted an operational state plan to a federal
agency, or has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a
federal law or regulation, the department shall make the plan or
approved waiver application available to the public by publishing
that information on the first page of the department's Internet Web
site that relates to the same subject matter as the plan or approved
waiver application.
  SEC. 2.  Division 3.5 (commencing with Section 3500) is added to
the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

      DIVISION 3.5.  California Health and Human Services Agency
Departments: Public Notice Requirements


   3500.  If a department within the California Health and Human
Services Agency has submitted an operational state plan to a federal
agency, or has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a
federal law or regulation, the department shall make the plan or
approved waiver application available to the public by publishing
that information on the first page of the department's Internet Web
site that relates to the same subject matter as the plan or approved
waiver application.