BILL NUMBER: AB 294	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 23, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Lackey and Steinorth
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
Olsen   and Wilk   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Vidak
  ) 

                        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 amended, 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   received approval of  an
operational state plan  to   by  a federal
agency, or that has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a
federal law or regulation, to make the  approved  plan or
 approved  waiver application available to the
public by publishing  a hyperlink to  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.   site. 
   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   received
approval of  an operational state plan  to 
 by  a federal agency, or has applied and has been approved
for a waiver from a federal law or regulation, the department shall
make the  approved  plan or  approved 
waiver application available to the public by publishing  a
hyperlink to  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. 
   at the time the department is otherwise updating its
Internet Web site. 
  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   received
approval of  an operational state plan  to 
 by  a federal agency, or has applied and has been approved
for a waiver from a federal law or regulation, the department shall
make the  approved  plan or  approved 
waiver application available to the public by publishing  a
hyperlink to  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. 
 at the time the department is otherwise updating its Internet
Web site.